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A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |
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A strand or cluster of hair |
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A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
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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 |
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A restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key |
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Any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
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Fasten with a lock Lock the bike to the fence |
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Keep engaged Engaged the gears |
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Become rigid or immoveable The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise |
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Hold in a locking position He locked his hands around her neck |
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Become engaged or intermeshed with one another They were locked in embrace |
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Hold fast (in a certain state) He was locked in a laughing fit |
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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 |
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Pass by means through a lock in a waterway |
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Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels |
noun | fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing |
noun | curl, ringlet, whorl, hair |
noun | mechanism |
noun | lock chamber, enclosure |
noun | ignition lock, restraint, constraint |
noun | wrestling hold
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verb | fasten, fix, secure, lock up, lock up
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verb | engage, mesh, operate, move, displace |
verb | engage |
verb | interlock, interlace, hold, take hold
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verb | interlock, embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze |
verb | overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake |
verb | lock in, lock away, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up, confine |
verb | pass, go through, go across
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verb | construct, build, make |