English Dictionary

lock

/lɒk/

noun

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.

I forgot to bring my lock to the gym.

意味（1）

Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

Give me the key, said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.

意味（2）

(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

[…]the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

意味（3）

A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.

Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.

意味（4）

(firearms) The firing mechanism.

I never saw such a gun in my life, replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

意味（5）

Complete control over a situation.

Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

意味（6）

Something sure to be a success.

Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

意味（7）

(rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.

Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava.

意味（8）

A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

意味（9）

A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.

Sergestus, eager with his beak to press

Betwixt the rival galley and the rock,

Sergestus, eager with his beak to press Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock

意味（10）

A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

意味（11）

A grapple in wrestling.

They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling