• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent''s body is twisted or pressured
• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
• a strand or cluster of hair
• become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient''s knees tended to Lock in this exercise"
• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents Locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She Locked her jewels in the safe"
• fasten with a Lock; "Lock the bike to the fence"
• keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
• become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were Locked in embrace"
• hold in a Locking position; "He Locked his hands around her neck"
• build Locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
• hold fast (in a certain state); "He was Locked in a laughing fit"
• pass by means through a Lock in a waterway

'Lock' in other languages