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Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOCK Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewg-#LOCK

Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”).

The verb is from Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#LOCK Category:English terms derived from Middle English#LOCK locken, lokken, louken, from Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#LOCK Category:English terms derived from Old English#LOCK lūcan, Proto-West Germanic Category:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LOCK Category:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LOCK *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LOCK Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LOCK *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin.

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Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
  "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.
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- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
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(computing Category:en:Computing#LOCK, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- 2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster:
  [T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
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A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo:
  Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.
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(firearms Category:en:Gun mechanisms#LOCK) The firing mechanism.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
  "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.
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Complete control over a situation.
- 2003, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds:
  Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
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Something sure to be a success.
- 2004, Avery Corman, A perfect divorce:
  Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
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(gambling Category:en:Gambling#LOCK) Synonym of Dutch book.
(rugby Category:en:Rugby#LOCK) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
  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.
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A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- 1834 September–November; 1835 January, Thomas De Quincey, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 207:
  [O]n may of his lecture days I have seen all Albemarle Street closed by a "lock" of carriages, filled with women of distinction, until the servants of the Institution or their own footmen advanced to the carriage-doors with the intelligence that Mr. Coleridge had been suddenly taken ill.
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A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Sergestus, eager with his beak to press / Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, / Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock
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A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
A grapple in wrestling.
- [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
  They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling
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Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms

Tok Pisin: lok
→ Hawaiian: laka

something used for fastening

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a mutex or other token

segment of a canal

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firing mechanism of a gun

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complete control

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something sure to be a success

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a player in the second row of the scrum in Rugby

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lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)Category:English lemmas#LOCK Category:English verbs#LOCK Category:English entries with incorrect language header#LOCK Category:Pages with entries#LOCK Category:Pages with 3 entries#LOCK

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#LOCK) To become fastened in place.
If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#LOCK) To fasten with a lock.
Antonym: unlock

Remember to lock the door when you leave.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#LOCK) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
Antonym: unlock

This door locks with a key.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#LOCK) To intertwine or dovetail.
Synonyms: braid, lace, twine; see also Thesaurus:intertwine

with his hands locked behind his backCategory:English terms with usage examples#LOCK

We locked arms and stepped out into the night.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#LOCK, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
a pop and lock routineCategory:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
(Internet Category:en:Internet#LOCK, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#LOCK) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
(Internet Category:en:Internet#LOCK, wiki jargon Category:en:Wiki#LOCK, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#LOCK) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOCK
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#LOCK, rugby Category:en:Rugby#LOCK) To play in the position of lock.
- 1980, Ken Berry, chapter 14, in First Offender, Auckland: Collins, page 117:
  Please don't disappoint me - you are female, aren't you? I have a lingering suspicion that you are 17 stone and lock for Tarankai.
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to become fastened in place

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to fasten with a lock

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to be capable of becoming fastened in place

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to intertwine or dovetail

break dancing: to freeze one's body or a part thereof in place

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to furnish with locks

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to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock

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(internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.

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Cognate with Alemannic German lokha (“hair”), Dutch lok (“lock of hair, curl”), German Locke (“lock of hair, curl”), Danish lok (“lock of hair, curl”), Faroese, Icelandic lokkur (“lock of hair, curl”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk lokk (“lock of hair, curl”), 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".

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A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:
  Baſſ. […] Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
  For the foure windes blow in from euery coaſt
  Renowned ſutors, and her ſunny locks
  Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
  Which makes her ſeat of Belmont Cholchos -'| ſtrond,
  And many Iaſons come in queſt of her.
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- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
  If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?
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A small quantity of straw etc.
(Scots law Category:en:Scots law#LOCK, historical Category:English terms with historical senses#LOCK) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

length of hair — see also highlight

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Swedish

From Old Norse Category:Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#LOCK Category:Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#LOCK lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic Category:Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LOCK Category:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LOCK *lukkaz.

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

Declension of *lock*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lock	locks
singular	definite	locken	lockens
plural	indefinite	lockar	lockars
plural	definite	lockarna	lockarnas

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a lid, (when referring to a lid) a cover
Hon skruvade av locket på burken
She unscrewed the lid of the jar
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locket på soptunnan
the lid of the trash can
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ett lock till en kastrull
a lid for a saucepan
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toalettlock
toilet lid / toilet seat cover
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1. a cap (when a lid, or often more generally for caps at the end of tubes)
  Jag öppnade locket på schampoflaskan
  I opened the cap of the shampoo bottle
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  skruva av plastlocket på kaviartuben
  unscrew the plastic cap on the kaviar tube
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popping (as when ears pop)^[1]
Få lock för örat.
Be deafened.
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a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards
call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka)
med lock och pock

Declension of *lock*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lock	locks
singular	definite	locket	lockets
plural	indefinite	lock	locks
plural	definite	locken	lockens

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 ^[2]
grytlock

“lock”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“lock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“lock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

[1] Grief Gondola, #2 by Tomas Tranströmer, verse VI

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