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== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒk/ (General American) enPR: lŏk, IPA(key): /lɑk/ Rhymes: -ɒk Homophones: Locke; (Anglicised) loch, lough (General American, father-bother merger) Homophones: lakh (one pronunciation); lark (non-rhotic); lawk (cot–caught merger) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”). ==== Noun ==== lock (plural locks) Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource. A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels. (firearms) The firing mechanism. Complete control over a situation. Something sure to be a success. (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock. A device for keeping a wheel from turning. A grapple in wrestling. ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Tok Pisin: lok → Hawaiian: laka ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken) (intransitive) To become fastened in place. (transitive) To fasten with a lock. Antonym: unlock (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place. Antonym: unlock (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail. Synonyms: braid, lace, twine; see also Thesaurus:intertwine (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place. To furnish (a canal) with locks. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it. (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users. (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc (“hair of the head, hair, lock of hair, curl, ringlet”), from Proto-West Germanic *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Alemannic German lokha (“hair”), Dutch lok (“lock of hair, curl”), German Locke (“lock of hair, curl”), Danish lok (“lock of hair, curl”), Faroese, Icelandic lokkur (“lock of hair, curl”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk lokk (“lock of hair, curl”), Swedish lock (“lock of hair, curl”). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb". ==== Noun ==== lock (plural locks) A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc. A small quantity of straw etc. (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === KLOC, Kloc, colk == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɔk/ Rhymes: -ɔk Homophones: Lok, Log === Verb === lock singular imperative of locken (colloquial) first-person singular present of locken === Adjective === lock (not comparable) Only used in auf lock. == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Norse lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz. === Pronunciation === === Noun === lock c (often in the plural) a lock of hair, a curl of hair ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hårlock locktång === Noun === lock n a lid, (when referring to a lid) a cover a cap (when a lid, or often more generally for caps at the end of tubes) popping (as when ears pop) a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka) med lock och pock ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Få lock för örat: be deafened. When you have bad hearing from the change in air pressure due to an air plane flight. So it’s sort of like having a casserole cover in your ear grytlock ==== Related terms ==== locka lockig ==== See also ==== kork === References === “lock”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “lock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “lock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)