lock

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɒk/    美 /lɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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.
  3. A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource. broadly
    — [T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
  4. A small quantity of straw etc.
  5. A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant. historical
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Complete control over a situation.
    — Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
  9. Something sure to be a success.
    — Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
  10. Synonym of Dutch book.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  15. A grapple in wrestling.
    — They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling
动词 v.
  1. To become fastened in place. intransitive
    — If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.
  2. To fasten with a lock. transitive
    — Remember to lock the door when you leave.
  3. To be capable of becoming fastened in place. intransitive
    — This door locks with a key.
  4. To intertwine or dovetail. transitive
    — with his hands locked behind his back
  5. To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place. intransitive
    — a pop and lock routine
  6. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
  7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
  8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
  9. To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it. Internet,transitive
  10. To prevent a page from being edited by other users. Internet,transitive
    — Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.
  11. To play in the position of lock. intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

locks plural locks present,singular,third-person locking participle,present locked past locked participle,past locken obsolete,participle,past locks plural

词汇关系

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衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
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”).
more detail
The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin.
词源 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".
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