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locking::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lockup |
| Type of | protection |
Examples of locking
locking
You can't stop it, short of locking them up in the closet for five or six years.
From the dailyherald.com
One remembered an administrator locking the front door to the elementary school.
From the washingtonpost.com
The Wings deny the neutral zone as if locking up a grocery store after midnight.
From the freep.com
Invest in a locking mailbox to prevent identity thieves from helping themselves.
From the freep.com
That's what Giant Eagle did before testing the locking wheels, Mr. Roberts said.
From the post-gazette.com
They hook together through a tongue-and-groove framework and locking pin system.
From the sltrib.com
The city council must take a final vote on the map Feb. 21 before locking it in.
From the dailyherald.com
We turned off the light and went up to my room, after locking the basement door.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There is simply too much commercial advantage in locking people into a platform.
From the guardian.co.uk
- 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. ...
