Definition of Locking
Noun: locking ló-king
- The act of locking something up to protect it
- lockup
- Fasten with a lock
"lock the bike to the fence"
- Keep engaged
"locked the gears";
- engage, mesh, operate
- 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";
- interlock, interlace
- Become engaged or intermeshed with one another
"They were locked in embrace";
- interlock
- 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";
- lock in, lock away, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up
- Pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- Build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
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