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Synonyms
lock

verb

  1. fasten with a lock: "lock the bike to the fence"
  2. keep engaged: "engaged the gears"
  3. become rigid or immoveable: "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
  4. hold in a locking position: "He locked his hands around her neck"
  5. become engaged or intermeshed with one another: "They were locked in embrace"
  6. hold fast (in a certain state): "He was locked in a laughing fit"
  7. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape: "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"
  8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway
  9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

noun

  1. a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
  2. a strand or cluster of hair
  3. a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
  4. enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level: used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
  5. a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
  6. any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured