Lock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

   “"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.”

2. isim A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

   “[T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.”

3. isim A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.

   “Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.”

4. isim The firing mechanism.

   “"I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.”

5. isim Complete control over a situation.

   “Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.”

6. isim Something sure to be a success.

   “Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.”

7. isim Synonym of Dutch book.
8. isim A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.

   “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.”

9. isim A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

   “[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.”

10. isim A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.

    “Sergestus, eager with his beak to press / Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, / Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock”

11. isim A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
12. isim A grapple in wrestling.

    “They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling”

13. fiil To become fastened in place.

    “If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.”

14. fiil To fasten with a lock.

    “Remember to lock the door when you leave.”

15. fiil To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

    “This door locks with a key.”

16. fiil To intertwine or dovetail.

    “with his hands locked behind his back”

17. fiil To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

    “a pop and lock routine”

18. fiil To furnish (a canal) with locks.
19. fiil To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
20. fiil To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
21. fiil To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
22. fiil To prevent a page from being edited by other users.

    “Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.”

23. fiil To play in the position of lock.

    “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.”

24. isim A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.

    “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.”

25. isim A small quantity of straw etc.
26. isim A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
27. özel isim A surname.
28. özel isim An unincorporated community in Knox County and Licking County, Ohio, United States.
29. özel isim A town in Elliston district council area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia; from the surname.