Definition of d-lock in English English dictionary
- -lock
- action or proceeding, practice, ritual
- Caps Lock
- A lock key on a computer keyboard, which when pressed causes all subsequently typed letters to be capitalised on the screen
- Num Lock
- A key on a standard extended keyboard which, when pressed, toggles the keys of the numeric keypad between cursor control functions and numeric input functions
- Scroll Lock
- A key on a standard extended keyboard, originally causing the arrow keys to scroll a window rather than moving a cursor, now sometimes used for other purposes
- ankle lock
- A police, military, wrestling, general fighting and martial arts technique of twisting the ankle of someone already down, in order to keep them down, under the painful threat of an injury to their ankle that will mar them for life
- anti-lock
- Preventing from becoming stuck or jammed (i.e. locked). Especially applies to anti-lock brakes which are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than "locking" and causing the car to skid
- caps lock
- Alternative spelling of Caps Lock
- double lock standing seam
- A standing seam that uses a double overlapping interlock between two metal panels
- flash lock
- A simple single gate lock on a river or canal
- flat lock
- a method of interlocking metal panels in which one panel edge is folded back on top of itself and the other panel is folded under, after which the two panels are hooked together
- lock
- To become fastened in place
If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.
- lock
- Something sure to be a success
Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
- lock
- To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place
a pop and lock routine.
- lock
- To be capable of becoming fastened in place
This door locks with a key.
- lock
- To intertwine or dovetail
We locked arms and stepped out into the night.
- lock
- To fasten with a lock
Remember to lock the door when you leave.
- lock
- 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.
- lock
- The firing mechanism of a gun
I never saw such a gun in my life, replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.
- lock
- tuft or length of hair
If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?.
- lock
- A segment of a canal or other 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.
- lock
- Complete control over a situation
Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
- lock
- A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team
- lock
- A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource
the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
- lock and load
- To prepare for an imminent event
- lock and load
- A slang military command to prepare weapons for battle. No US weapon includes "lock and load" as one of the commands related to that weapon, nor is it a recognized range command
Lock and load, boy, lock and load.
- lock away
- to lock up; to lock in a safe place
- lock horns
- to come into conflict
- lock in
- To fix the value of something potentially variable
I've locked in a rate of 5%.
- lock in
- A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church
The youth group will have their annual lock-in this weekend.
- lock in
- To secure someone or something in a locked enclosure
- lock ins
- plural form of lock in
- lock key
- Any of certain keys of a computer keyboard that switch between certain states and are represented by LEDs
- lock keys
- plural form of lock key
- lock lips
- To kiss on the lips; to engage in a French kiss
- lock out
- To prevent from entering a place, particularly oneself, inadvertently
I've locked myself out of my room again.
- lock out
- To prevent from accessing a data structure
The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.
- lock out
- An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike
- lock pick
- Any device used to unlock a lock without use of a key
- lock pick
- To use tools to unlock locks without a key, to pick locks
- lock pick
- A person who picks locks
- lock picked
- Simple past tense and past participle of lock pick
- lock picking
- The action of using tools to unlock a lock without a key to that lock
- lock picks
- plural form of lock pick
- lock picks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lock pick
- lock time
- The time, measured in milliseconds, from when the trigger is pulled until the firing pin strikes the primer
- lock up
- to invest in something long term
- lock up
- to imprison or incarcerate someone
- lock up
- to cease responding, to freeze
- lock up
- to close all doors and windows of a place securely
- lock, stock and barrel
- A thing in its entirety, with nothing omitted
They want to buy the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel.
- lock-in
- A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard
- lock-in
- An illegal but widely-tolerated invitation-only gathering in a British pub or ale-house, after the end of licensing hours, to allow regular customers the opportunity to enjoy further drinking time
- lock-in
- Alternative spelling of lock in
- lock-pick
- Alternative spelling of lock pick
- lock-picked
- Alternative spelling of lock picked
- lock-picking
- Alternative spelling of lock picking
- lock-picks
- plural form of lock-pick (alternative spelling of lock picks)
- lock-picks
- Alternative spelling of lock picks
- num lock
- Alternative spelling of Num Lock
- rim lock
- A lock and plate fixed to the surface of a door rather than morticed within the door
- scroll lock
- Alternative spelling of Scroll Lock
- staircase lock
- A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level
- tide lock
- A lock situated between an enclosed basin or a canal and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide
- time lock
- a lock, typically in on a door in a bank vault, that cannot be unlocked before a specified time
- time-lock
- Alternative form of time lock
- under lock and key
- imprisoned with little or no chance of escape
If it was him we can have him under lock and key in 24 hours.
- lock
- On a canal or river, a lock is a place where walls have been built with gates at each end so that boats can move to a higher or lower section of the canal or river, by gradually changing the water level inside the gates
- lock
- {n} part of a door or gun, a tuft, hug, place, a barrier in a canal
- lock
- {v} to fasten with a lock, grapple, fix, unite, form locks for inland navigation
- anti-lock breaks
- An anti-lock braking system (ABS) (translated from German, Antiblockiersystem) is a system on motor vehicles which prevents the wheels from locking while braking. An anti-locking braking system allows the driver to maintain steering control under heavy braking by preventing a skid and allowing the wheel to continue to forward roll and create lateral control, as directed by driver steering inputs
- kensington Lock
- A Kensington Security Slot (also called a K-Slot or Kensington lock) is a small hole found on almost all small or portable computer and electronics equipment, particularly on expensive and relatively light ones: laptops and LCDs, and even some larger electronics, such as a number of Dell PCs and Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console. It is used for attaching a lock, in particular those from Kensington Computer Products Group, who are its originators
- line lock
- (Otomotiv) A line lock is a device that allows the front brakes to lock independently of the rear brakes via a switch
- lock and load
- "Load and lock" was a military command in the United States. Originally, this order referred to the operation of the M1 Garand rifle. The phrase describes the insertion of a clip of ammunition into the rifle, loading the clip, and locking the bolt forward (which forces a round into the chamber, readying the rifle for use). Thus the phrase is an example of the rhetorical device hysteron proteron
- lock and load
- A military command in the United States. (Originally, this order referred to the operation of the M1 Garand rifle). The phrase describes the insertion of a clip of ammunition into the rifle, loading the clip, and locking the bolt forward (which forces a round into the chamber, readying the rifle for use)
- lock and load
- Warning people to get ready for action
- lock and tag
- Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) or lock and tag is a safety procedure which is used in industry and research settings to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and not started up again prior to the completion of maintenance or servicing work
- lock picking
- Lock picking is the act of unlocking a lock by analysing and manipulating the components of the lock device, without the original key. Although lock picking can be associated with criminal intent, it is an essential skill for a locksmith. Lock picking is the ideal way of opening a lock without the correct key, while not damaging the lock, allowing it to be rekeyed for later use, which is especially important with antique locks that would be impossible to replace if destructive entry methods are used
- lock something on
- (deyim) Attach or fix something onto someone or something
- lock something onto
- (deyim) Attach or fix something onto someone or something
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- (Atasözü) Try to deal with something after it is too late
Now my friend wants to fix his house but it is like locking the barn door after the horse is gone. There was a flood and the damage is already done.
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- (Atasözü) To be careful or try to make something safe when it is too late
After Mary failed the examination, she said she would study hard after that. She wanted to lock the barn door after the horse was stolen.
- dead lock
- impasse; deadlock; standstill; dead end
- flat lock
- A type of interlocking two separate metal panels by folding one panel over on top itself and the folding the other down under itself and then hooking the panels together
- lock
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- lock
- To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk
- lock
- To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him
- lock
- A hand that is guaranteed to win at least part of the pot
- lock
- lock, stock, and barrel: see barrel. Mechanical or electronic device for securing a door or receptacle so that it cannot be opened except by a key or a code. The lock originated in the Middle East; the oldest known example was found near Nineveh. Possibly 4,000 years old, it is of the pin tumbler type, otherwise known as an Egyptian lock. The Romans were the first to use metal locks and to make small keys for them. They also invented wards, projections in the keyhole that prevent a key from turning unless it has slots that avoid the projections. Probably the most familiar lock today is the cylinder lock, a pin tumbler lock opened by a flat key with a serrated edge; the serrations raise pins in the cylinder to the proper heights, allowing the cylinder to turn. Also common are the unit lock, housed within a rectangular notch cut into the edge of a door, and the mortise lock, housed in a mortise cut into the door edge, the lock mechanism being covered on both sides. Other types include lever and combination locks. Electronic locks that open with a magnetic card key are popular for banks, hotel rooms, and offices
- lock in
- Used in the context of general equities Assures that an individual contracts all his or her business with a sole broker by providing superior services, such as accommodating block buy and sell needs or preparing excellent research (soft dollar lock) This usually guarantees a certain volume of business
- lock out
- If someone locks you out of a place, they prevent you entering it by locking the doors. They had had a row, and she had locked him out of the apartment My husband's locked me out
- lock out
- If you lock yourself out of a place, such as your house, you cannot get in because the door is locked and you do not have your keys. The new tenants locked themselves out of their apartment and had to break in There had been a knock at the door and when she opened it she locked herself out The wind had made the door swing closed, and she was now locked out
- lock stitch
- Formed by three or four consecutive short, tight threads stitched at end of embroidery to prevent raveling
- lock up
- If you lock something up in a place or container, you put or hide it there and fasten the lock. Give away any food you have on hand, or lock it up and give the key to the neighbours Control of materials could be maintained by locking up bombs
- under lock and key
- in jail, behind bars, locked up