lock /ˈlɑk/
 鎖,剎車,水閘,一縷頭髮(vt.)鎖,鎖上,拘禁,隱藏,使固定,卡住(vi.)鎖住,緊閉
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 鎖定
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 Lock n.  A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
    These gray locks, the pursuivants of death.   --Shak.
 Lock, n.
 1. 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.
 2. 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.   --De Quincey.
 3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
 4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
 5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
 6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
 7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
 8. A grapple in wrestling.
 Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with.
 Lock bay Canals, the body of water in a lock chamber.
 Lock chamber, the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock.
 Lock nut. See Check nut, under Check.
 Lock plate, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is attached.
 Lock rail Arch., in ordinary paneled doors, the rail nearest the lock. Lock rand Masonry, a range of bond stone. --Knight.
 Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise.
 Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock.
 Lock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Locked p. pr. & vb. n. Locking.]
 1. 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.
 2. To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
 3. To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
 4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. “ Lock hand in hand.”
 5. Canals To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
 6. Fencing To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
 Lock v. i. To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
    When it locked none might through it pass.   --Spenser.
 To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other.
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 lock
      n 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly
           closed
      2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: curl, ringlet, whorl]
      3: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
      4: 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 [syn: lock chamber]
      5: a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent
         the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
         [syn: ignition lock]
      6: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body
         is twisted or pressured
      v 1: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant: unlock,
            unlock]
      2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, operate]
         [ant: disengage]
      3: become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the
         patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" [ant: unlock]
      4: hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her
         neck" [syn: interlock, interlace]
      5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were
         locked in embrace" [syn: interlock]
      6: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing
         fit"
      7: place in a place where something cannot be removed or
         someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up
         for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
         [syn: lock in, lock away, put away, shut up, shut
         away, lock up]
      8: pass by means through a lock in a waterway
      9: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
 Lock
    The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron
    (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used,
    and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an
    opening in the outside (Judg. 3:24). (See KEY.)
      Lock of hair (Judg. 16:13, 19; Ezek. 8:3; Num. 6:5, etc.).