eng: lock - UWN/MENTA

eng: lock

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Meaning
means	(noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed lock
means	(noun) a strand or cluster of hair ringlet, whorl, curl, lock
means	(noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun lock
means	(noun) 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 lock chamber, lock
means	(noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key ignition lock, lock
means	(noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured lock
means	(verb) fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" lock
means	(verb) keep engaged; "engaged the gears" engage, lock, operate, mesh
means	(verb) become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" lock
means	(verb) hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" interlace, interlock, lock
means	(verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" interlock, lock
means	(verb) hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit" lock
means	(verb) 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" put away, lock, shut away, lock up, lock in, shut up, lock away
means	(verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway lock
means	(verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels lock
means	e/Lock (computer)
means	e/Lock (database)
means	e/Lock (device)
means	e/Lock (firearm)

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