lock


Meanings

  • a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
  • a strand or cluster of hair
  • a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
  • 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 restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
  • any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
  • fasten with a lock;
    • "lock the bike to the fence"
  • keep engaged;
  • become rigid or immoveable;
    • "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
  • hold in a locking position;
    • "He locked his hands around her neck"
  • become engaged or intermeshed with one another;
    • "They were locked in embrace"
  • hold fast (in a certain state);
    • "He was locked in a laughing fit"
  • 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"
  • pass by means through a lock in a waterway
  • build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
  • LOCK v -ED, -ING, -S to secure by means of a mechanical fastening device LOCKABLE adj


Scrabble Score: 10

lock is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

lock is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

lock is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 12

lock is a valid Words With Friends word