Lock
noun
- 1.
- (a device for fastening a door or lid, etc., into position when it is closed, a mechanism on a gun to keep it from firing, an appliance to check the revolution of a wheel, a section of a canal or other waterway, with watertight gates at each end, in which boats are raised or lowered to another water level, the firing mechanism of a gun) ប្រដាប់សម្រាប់បិទ, បិទ, សន្ទះទំនប់ទឹក, បង្ខាំង, ឃុំឃាំង, សោទុក, ទប់ (កង់មិនឲ្យរិលឬទប់ម៉ស៊ីនមិនឲ្យដើរ), metal lock សោ, safety lock of a gun គន្លឹះ, canal lock សន្ទះផ្លូវទឹក
Example: I have nothing that any one would went, so I don't keep a lock on the door. - 2.
- (A portion of hair that hangs together, locks, the hair of the head) ក្រវិល, កន្លាស់, របត់ (ផ្លូវទឹក), របត់ (ផ្លូវអយស្ម័យយានបត់មួយជុំ), ការហោះក្រឡាប់មួយជុំ (អាកាសយាន), សំណុំសូត្រ, សំណុំរោមសត្វ, ដុំតូចស្រាល, ផ្នត់សក់
Example: The lock of a door, a box, Lock smith etc., Lock the door, Lock up the box; lock him in; lock him out. - 3.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) សោរ
verb — past tense: locked ; past participle: locked ; present participle: locking ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) Wheels lock គាំង, lock up ចាក់សោបិទទ្វារបិទបង្អួច, lock stock and barrel ទាំងអស់ គ្រប់យ៉ាង, under lock and key ឃុំខ្លួនទុកហើយ, keep under lock and key ចាក់សោរទុក, lock gate ទំនប់ទឹក
- 2.
- ចាក់សោរ
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to fasten securely, to fit together securely, to link together, to shot up, to confine. -lock, stock. and barrel totally, completely, entirely. -lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen to begin action when it is too late. -under lock and key kept in a secured place. -lock up to imprison) lock the door ចាក់សោ (បិទ), lock arms យកដៃទៅកៀកថ្ពក់ជាប់ នឹងដៃអ្នកម្នាក់ទៀត, lock up (an office) ចាក់សោរ (បិទ), lock up (a prisoner) ដាក់គុក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
- 2.
- 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.
- 3.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- 4.
- A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
- 5.
- The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
- 6.
- 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.
- 7.
- That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
- 8.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- 9.
- A grapple in wrestling.
verb — past tense: locked ; past participle: locked ; present participle: locking ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- (TRANSITIVE) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
- 7.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
- 1.
- bar, bolt, catch, clasp, closure, fastening, hook, latch, padlock
- 2.
- plait, ringlet, trees