Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | lock - a strand or cluster of hair | |
3. | lock - a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | |
4. | ![]() Synonyms: lock chamber | |
5. | lock - a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key Synonyms: ignition lock | |
6. | lock - any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | |
Verb | 1. | lock - fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" |
2. | lock - keep engaged; "engaged the gears" | |
3. | lock - become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" Antonyms: unlock - become unlocked; "The door unlocked from the inside" | |
4. | lock - hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" | |
5. | lock - become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" Synonyms: interlock | |
6. | lock - hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit" | |
7. | lock - place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" | |
8. | lock - pass by means through a lock in a waterway | |
9. | lock - build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels |