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English to English noun
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a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |  | source: wordnet30
| 2 |
a strand or cluster of hair | | source: wordnet30
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a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | | source: wordnet30
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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 | | source: wordnet30
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a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | | source: wordnet30
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any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | | source: wordnet30
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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. | | source: webster1913
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Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened. | | source: webster1913 verb
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fasten with a lock | | Example: lock the bike to the fence
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| 10 |
keep engaged | | Example: engaged the gears
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become rigid or immoveable | | Example: The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise
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hold in a locking position | | Example: He locked his hands around her neck
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become engaged or intermeshed with one another | | Example: They were locked in embrace
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hold fast (in a certain state) | | Example: He was locked in a laughing fit
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place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | | Example: The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
She locked her jewels in the safe
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pass by means through a lock in a waterway | | source: wordnet30
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build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | | source: wordnet30
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To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc. | | source: webster1913
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To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. | | source: webster1913
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