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# lock

«lock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a device on a door, box or bike that keeps it closed so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lock, locks); verb (lock, locks, locked, locking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lock is a device on a door, box or bike that keeps it closed so it can only be opened with a key, code or card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#m1)

2) To lock is to close something with a lock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#m2)

3) A lock of hair is a small bunch of hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#m3)

4) A lock on a canal is a section with gates where boats are raised or lowered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety, lock the door when home alone and do not open it to strangers; lock your bike; never lock yourself in places like fridges or sheds. In technology, phones and accounts use passwords to «lock». Phrases: «lock up» (lock all doors), «locked out» (unable to get in), «under lock and key» (kept safely locked), «lock in».

### examples

- Lock the door when you go out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x1)
- My bike lock has a four-number code. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x2)
- I got locked out of the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x3)
- The medicines are kept under lock and key. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x4)
- She cut a lock of the baby's hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x5)
- The boat went through the canal lock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x6)
- Lock your tablet with a password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x7)
- Is the gate locked? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x8)
- The key turned easily in the lock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/#x9)

### note

Countable. «Locker» is a small cupboard that locks, like at school or the pool. «Lock» and «key» go together. Do not confuse «lock» with «luck».

### In the corpora

- [A bat sleeps all day upside down without effort, because its toes lock shut on their own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/6/)
- [The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/6/)
- [He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/7/)
- [He locks the door carefully and goes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/33/)
- [In a solid like a wooden block the particles are locked in place and only wobble, so it keeps its shape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.