Meaning & Definition of Lock in English

1. A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

2. A strand or cluster of hair

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

5. A restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

6. Any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

1. Fasten with a lock

• "Lock the bike to the fence"

2. Keep engaged

• "Engaged the gears"

3. Become rigid or immoveable

• "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"

4. Hold in a locking position

• "He locked his hands around her neck"

5. Become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• "They were locked in embrace"

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"

8. Pass by means through a lock in a waterway

9. Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels