lock

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
2. (broadly) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
3. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
4. The firing mechanism.
5. Complete control over a situation.
6. Something sure to be a success.
7. Synonym of Dutch book.
8. A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
9. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
10. A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
11. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
12. A grapple in wrestling.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
2. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
3. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
4. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
5. (intransitive) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
6. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
9. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
10. (Internet, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
11. (intransitive) To play in the position of lock.

Conceitos

fechadura

🔒

trancar

🔒

fechar

cadeado

eclusa

🔒

cacho

trava

bloquear

travar

cadeado

fehadura

Tranca

entrelaçar-se

Eclusas

aferrolhar

fechos

anel

💍

encerrar

fixar

mecha

🔒

bloqueio

entrelaçar

fechamento

fecho

fechar à chave

Cadeado

Sinônimos

padlock

bolt

close

shut

curl

latch

ringlet

fasten

sluice

interlock

lock up

tuft

key

🔑

hook

🪝

shut up

engage

strand

dam

interlace

tress

seal

🦭

mesh

operate

grip

bar

button

block

enclose

ignition lock

lock chamber

imprison

whorl

secure

adjourn

shut away

hasp

put away

floodgate

nail

locking

lock in

fastening

hold

lock away

fast

enclosure

bunch

build

cover

insert

Traduções

serrure

🔒

cadenas

fermer à clé

Schloss

🔒

serratura

🔒

cerradura

🔒

slot

🔒

chiudere a chiave

🔒

fermer

Schleuse

verschließen

écluse

abschließen

🔚

cerrar con llave

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lɒk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: lok

Herdado de inglês arcaico: loc

Herdado de inglês médio: locken

Herdado de inglês arcaico: lūcan

Herdado de inglês arcaico: locc

Cognato com frísio ocidental: lok

Cognato com holandês: lok

Cognato com alemão: Locke

Cognato com dinamarquês: lok

Cognato com sueco: lock

Cognato com gótico: -

In summary

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).
Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”).
more detail
The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin.