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lock

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English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /lɑk/
  • Homophones: Locke (general), lark (non-rhotic with father-bother merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (to bend; turn). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

Noun

lock (plural locks)

  1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
  2. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
  3. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
  4. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
  5. Complete control over a situation.
  6. Something sure to be a success.
  7. (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book
  8. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
  9. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  10. A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
  11. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  12. A grapple in wrestling.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: lok
  • Hawaiian: laka
Translations

Verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc (hair of the head, hair, lock of hair, curl, ringlet), from Proto-West Germanic *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (to bend).

Cognate with West Frisian lok, lokke, Dutch lok (earlock, curl), German Locke (lock of hair, curl), Danish lok, Swedish lock (lock of hair, curl). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (*lukan, to shut) in its ancient meaning "to curb".

Noun

lock (plural locks)

  1. A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
  2. A small quantity of straw etc.
  3. (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • KLOC, Kloc, colk

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lock

  1. singular imperative of locken
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of locken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lock c

  1. (often in the plural) a lock of hair, a curl of hair

Declension

Derived terms

  • hårlock
  • locktång

Noun

lock n

  1. a cover, a lid
  2. popping (as when ears pop)
  3. a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards
  4. call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka)
    med lock och pock

Declension

Derived terms

  • Få lock för örat: be deafened. When you have bad hearing from the change in air pressure due to an air plane flight. So it’s sort of like having a casserole cover in your ear
  • grytlock

Related terms

  • locka
  • lockig

References

  • lock in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • lock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • lock in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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