| 单词 | lock |
| 释义 | lock (once / 81 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4vn 5n 6n A lock is a tool that keeps a room, house, drawer, or box securely closed. You generally need a key, password, or combination to open a lock. You might use a padlock on your gym locker, opening it with a tiny key or a secret series of numbers. There are also locks called "bolts" like the one on your front door, and bicycle locks that protect your bike while you're at work. Lock also means "to secure with a lock" or "keep securely enclosed," like when you lock your goat in the yard to keep him from eating the neighbor's rose bushes. WORD FAMILYlock: forelock, interlock, lockage, locked, locker, locking, locks, unlock+/forelock: forelocks/interlock: interlocked, interlocking, interlocks/interlocking: interlockings/locker: lockers/locking: lockings, self-locking/unlock: unlocked, unlocking, unlocks USAGE EXAMPLESA baggage handler was locked inside an airplane’s cargo area during a 1½ -hour flight from North Carolina to Northern Virginia on Sunday. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Mark Campbell was part of a group of Kurdish activists who visited Mr Lock's family. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) While I meandered through my twenties, locked in my pseudo-bohemian stance, the remnants of that money rumbled along. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed Hypo|Hyper combination lock lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence cylinder locka lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt; tumblers are pins; inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate doorlocka lock on an exterior door door latch, latchspring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key lever locka lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move padlocka detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut sash fastener, sash lock, window locka lock attached to the sashes of a double hung window that can fix both in the shut position night latchdoorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place 2v fasten with a lock lock the bike to the fence Ant|Hypo|Hyper unlock become unlocked unlockopen the lock of padlock fasten with a padlock boltsecure or lock with a bolt fasten, fix, secure cause to be firmly attached 3v 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 Syn|Hyper lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up confine prevent from leaving or from being removed 4v keep engaged 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper engage, mesh, operate disengage, withdraw release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles flip, switch, throw cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation ridekeep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot switch on, turn oncause to operate by flipping a switch cut, switch off, turn off, turn outcause to stop operating by disengaging a switch displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 1n 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 Syn|Hyper lock chamber enclosure a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose 2v build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels Hyper build, construct, make make by combining materials and parts 3v pass by means through a lock in a waterway 3Hyper go across, go through, pass go across or through n a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun 4Hyper mechanism device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function 1v hold fast (in a certain state) He was locked in a laughing fit Hyper overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli 2v become rigid or immoveable The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise Ant|Hyper unlock become unlocked engage get caught 3v become engaged or intermeshed with one another They were locked in embrace Syn|Hyper interlock bosom, embrace, hug, squeeze squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness 4v hold in a locking position He locked his hands around her neck Syn|Hyper interlace, interlock hold, take hold have or hold in one's hands or grip 5n any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured 5Hypo|Hyper hammerlock a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back headlocka wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body wrestling hold a hold used in the sport of wrestling n a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key 6Syn|Hyper ignition lock constraint, restraint a device that retards something's motion n a strand or cluster of hair Syn|Hypo|Hyper curl, ringlet, whorl sausage curl a fat sausage-shaped curl forelocka lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead crimpa lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled dreadlockone of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians quiffa prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead) pin curla curl of hair made by dampening a strand of hair and curling it and holding the curl with a clip or bobby pin kiss curl, spit curla spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek hair a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss |
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