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: 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 device 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}]
2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: {engage}, {mesh}, {operate}]
[ant: {disengage}]
3: become rigid or immoveable; of bones; "Don't lock your knees
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}]