Overview of noun locking

The noun locking has 1 sense

• locking, lockup -- (the act of locking something up to protect it)

Overview of verb lock

The verb lock has 9 senses

• lock -- (fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence")


• engage, mesh, lock, operate -- (keep engaged; "engaged the gears")


• lock -- (become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise")


• lock, interlock, interlace -- (hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck")


• interlock, lock -- (become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace")


• lock -- (hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit")


• lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up -- (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")


• lock -- (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)


• lock -- (build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels)