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Examples of locked
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Olga Neklyayeva said the men locked her, screaming, in a separate hospital room.
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If you go ahead now and approve these funds, you are locked into these projects.
From the tennessean.com
In Mallaig, the engineer parked the coaches at the station and locked the doors.
From the latimes.com
Everything rests on whether they can keep the front door locked for long enough.
From the telegraph.co.uk
By day, she remained silent in Mr. Hose's bedroom, which locked from the inside.
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A young couple kisses next to their personal love lock, locked on some time ago.
From the sfgate.com
Three green lights on the display above will confirm that it is down and locked.
From the telegraph.co.uk
We file obediently to the lower lounge and the doors are locked from the inside.
From the telegraph.co.uk
One reason so many perished is that the owners had locked one of the exit doors.
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- A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- Fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
- A strand or cluster of hair
- Engage: keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
- A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- Become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
- The suffix -lock in Modern English survives only in wedlock. It descends from Old English -lu00E1c which was more productive, carrying a meaning of "action or proceeding, state of being, practice, ritual". As a noun, Old English lu00E1c means "play, sport", deriving from an earlier meaning of "sacrificial ritual or hymn" (Proto-Germanic *laikaz)...
- In computer science, a lock is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many threads of execution. Locks are one way of enforcing concurrency control policies.
- A lock is used when multiple users need to access a database concurrently. This prevents data from being corrupted or invalidated when multiple users try to write to the database. ...
