lock的意思|lock的解释-里氏词典

Lock \Lock\ (l[o^]k), n. [AS. locc; akin to D. lok, G. locke,
OHG. loc, Icel. lokkr, and perh. to Gr. ? to bend, twist.]
A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or
other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. --Shak.

Lock \Lock\, n. [AS. loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the
fastening of a door, fr. l[=u]can to lock, fasten; akin to
OS. l[=u]kan (in comp.), D. luiken, OHG. l[=u]hhan, Icel.
l[=u]ka, Goth. l[=u]kan (in comp.); cf. Skr. ruj to break.
Cf. {Locket}.]
1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a
door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a
bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the
thing fastened.

2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one
thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. --De
Quincey.

3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
--Dryden.

4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream
or canal.

5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in
raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to
another; -- called also {lift lock}.

6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock,
etc.

7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

8. A grapple in wrestling. --Milton.

{Detector lock}, a lock containing a contrivance for showing
whether it as has been tampered with.

{Lock bay} (Canals), the body of water in a lock chamber.

{Lock chamber}, the inclosed space between the gates of a
canal lock.

{Lock nut}. See {Check nut}, under {Check}.

{Lock plate}, a plate to which the mechanism of a gunlock is
attached.

{Lock rail} (Arch.), in ordinary paneled doors, the rail
nearest the lock.

{Lock rand} (Masonry), a range of bond stone. --Knight.

{Mortise lock}, a door lock inserted in a mortise.

{Rim lock}, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus
differing from a {mortise lock}.

Lock \Lock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Locked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Locking}.]
1. To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to
prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage
wheel, a river, etc.

2. 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. etc.

3. To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as
with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often
with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the
prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out
of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child
in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

4. To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms. ``
Lock hand in hand.'' --Shak.

5. (Canals) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a
boat) in a lock.

6. (Fencing) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by
turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

Lock \Lock\, v. i.
To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as,
the door locks close.

When it locked none might through it pass. --Spenser.

{To lock into}, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each
other. --Boyle.

Safety \Safe"ty\, n. [Cf. F. sauvet['e].]
1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger
or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

Up led by thee,
Into the heaven I have presumed,
An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down,
Return me to my native element. --Milton.

2. Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from
liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the
quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence,
justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.

Would there were any safety in thy sex,
That I might put a thousand sorrows off,
And credit thy repentance! --Beau. & Fl.

3. Preservation from escape; close custody.

Imprison him, . . .
Deliver him to safety; and return. --Shak.

4. (Amer. Football) the act or result of a ball-carrier on
the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line,
or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own
goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind
that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a
play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the
defensive team; -- it is distinguished from {touchback},
when the ball is downed behind the goal after being
propelled there or last touched by a player of the
defending team. See {Touchdown}. Same as {Safety
touchdown}, below.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

5. Short for {Safety bicycle}. [archaic]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

6. a switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents
the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also
called {safety catch}, {safety lock}, or {lock}. [archaic]
[PJC]

"We're running a tightrope between an attempt to keep things normal and secure," Superintendent Donald Monroe said. "We shouldn't tell schools across America to lock their doors to the neighborhoods around them," Monroe said.
In the Fruitport case, the boy admitted he threatened to cut his victims' heads off with a sword or lock them in the bathroom if they told their parents, said Juvenile Court caseworker Debra Jensen.
Any wheel that is about to lock up and skid has its brake released until the tyre grips again.
A six-page manual advises that when an alarm sounds, people should stay calm, gather essentials, lock their homes and head away from the radiation source without speeding.
The shift lock "has been recognized worldwide as the best device available to prevent unintended acceleration," Audi said Wednesday.
More than 1,800 cast in situ piles will be constructed to depths of up to 21 metres with over one third being founded in the concrete inverts of the infilled dock and lock structures.
The expert came, installed a new lock, relieved my father of $150, and the family drove out of town a day late in a cloud of steam.
Without the funds, the communications infrastructure required to lock the mountainous north into the rest of the country and Europe cannot be put in place.
But it could gain assent to essentially flat wages through to 1996. To lock the unions into such restraint the government will probably have to jettison part of its planned reform of the overtly rigid labour laws.
"This will lock in the fact that South America will lower production," said William Biedermann, research director with Allendale Inc., a commodities brokerage in Crystal Lake, Ill.
Gary Bettman, the NHL commissioner, has threatened to lock the players out unless they sign an agreement by Saturday. Asian Games.
"If you lock up and don't start pulling the trigger from the very start," he says bluntly, "you and your buddies will be overrun.
He sees the steering wheel lock, he goes to the next car which isn't protected.' And thereby hangs the next problem.
Officials at Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest carmaker, said they had no choice but to lock out workers in Ulsan on the nation's southeast coast.
'So I lock the door and paint interiors.'
In any case, the era ended in violence, as the ripped lock of one of Metternich's briefcases on display here dramatically demonstrates.
The company said it is recalling 20,000 1985 and 1986-model Pontiac Grand Prix LE and Broughams to check driver-side power door lock switches for electrical wires that may be exposed during use.
In this strategy, traders buy futures and sell the underlying stocks to lock in fleeting price differences.
Two brokerage firms, believed to be trading for their own accounts, sold stocks and bought stock-index futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to lock in price differences.
Partnerships are long-term investments, which typically require investors to lock up their money for seven to 10 years.
He also has had a lock on the six o'clock news, appearing almost daily to denounce wrongdoing (he once joined Sen. Alfonse D'Amato in dressing as street scum and buying cocaine, to show how easy it was) or to announce indictments.
At the very least it seems imprudent to lock up forever important energy resources.
The proliferation of such exclusive, long-term deals has fed a multimillion-dollar bidding frenzy by the networks in recent years, as each tries to lock up hot talent.
The forward linemen lock arms and heads in a fearsome drive to resume play.
GM said the lock, designed to prevent the transmission from slipping out of drive into reverse or park while the car is in motion, could wear out.
Hedging is also done in what is called the swaps market. In a swap agreement, an oil user or producer agrees to lock in the price it will pay or receive at a predictable level. This is typically done through a bank or a hedging manager.
The Walpole lock and a grand gold ceremonial key bearing the papal coat of arms are on loan from Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery, which plans to display much of its sizable collection next year.
He says the manager threatened to lock him in the facility overnight to reconsider the cars he had rejected.
A jobs shake-out was inevitable. Heseltine wanted to lock all the parties in a room and 'bang heads' until agreement was reached.
Two of them _ Gore and Gephardt _ visited Dukakis on Tuesday. Jesse Jackson, who technically remains in the race although Dukakis has a mathematical lock on the nomination, spent the Fourth of July with Dukakis.

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