(video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

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.

(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.

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.

From or in a nearby location. / (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

A person who lives near a given place. / A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. / (rail transport) Clipping of local train.

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

The place where something happens.

A particular point or place in physical space. / An act of locating. / (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township. / (law) A leasing on rent.

(cryptozoology) A large creature believed by some to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. It is said to have a long neck and one or more humps that protrude from the water.