lock

IPA: ɫˈɑk

Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
(firearms) The firing mechanism.
Complete control over a situation.
Something sure to be a success.
(gambling) Synonym of Dutch book
(rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
A grapple in wrestling.
A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
A small quantity of straw etc.
(Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Knox County and Licking County, Ohio, United States.
A town in Elliston district council area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia; from the surname.

(intransitive) To become fastened in place.
(transitive) To fasten with a lock.
(intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
(transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
(intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
(Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
(Internet, transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
(intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.

Examples of "lock" in Sentences

DARRELL HAMMOND, ACTOR (as Al Gore): I would put it in what I call a lock box.
The bridge collapse was in what we refer to as our lock and dam number one pool.
However, the lock is always a very complicated molecule of high molecular weight, a protein or a nucleic acid.
There is precedent for the latter approach in Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy AB's recent deal for rival Cardo AB.
Assuming the lock is a simple warded one, it doesn't seem that it's possible to unlock this chest and leave it unlocked.
Like Italian autoloaders, it has a bolt lock, and on the SA-08, the lock is a little button on the side of the trigger guard that takes some getting used to.
Would you prefer a forum where what you refer to as "experience sharing" were in lock step among respondents and therefore unenlightening for the questioner?
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This is perhaps one of the most closely watched unemployment releases that I can remember, a big crowd inside what we call the lock-up, where reporters are brought in, given release half an hour ahead of time but kept in a locked room until precisely 8: 30, when we can report.