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n.

1. A device operated by a key, combination, or keycard and used, as on a door, for holding, closing, or securing.

2.
A section of a waterway, such as a canal, closed off with gates, in
which vessels in transit are raised or lowered by raising or lowering
the water level of that section.

3. A mechanism in a firearm for exploding the charge.

4. An interlocking or entanglement of elements or parts.

5.

a. Sports A hold in wrestling or self-defense that is secured on a part of an opponent's body.

b. A secure hold; control: The distributor has a lock on most of the market.

c. A sure thing; a certainty: His promotion is a lock.

v. Locked, lock·ing, locks

v.tr.

1.

a. To fasten the lock of: Close and lock a drawer.

b. To shut or make secure with or as if with locks: Locked the house.

2. To confine or exclude by or as if by means of a lock: Locked the dog in for the night; locked the criminal up in a cell.

3. To fix in place so that movement or escape is impossible; hold fast: The ship was locked in the ice through the winter. She felt that she had become locked into a binding agreement.

4.

a. To sight and follow (a moving target) automatically: Locked the enemy fighter in the gun sights.

b. To aim (a weapon or other device) at a moving target so as to follow it automatically: "The pilot had locked his targeting radar on the slow-moving frigate" (Ed Magnuson).

5. To engage and interlock securely so as to be immobile.

6. To clasp or link firmly; intertwine: Locked arms and walked away.

7. To bind in close struggle or battle: The two dogs were locked in combat.

8.

a. To equip (a waterway) with locks.

b. To pass (a vessel) through a lock