English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of lock

lock

/noun/ ताला; अवरोध; बन्दूक का धोड़ा; बांध वालों की लट; लट; लॉक; पाश;
/verb/ताला लगाना; बन्द करना; आलिंगन करना; बंद हो जाना;

Synonym locking; barrier; pigtail; loop; hasp; lock up; interlock; lock in;

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English Dictionary:

1. Lock

[n.]

- A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
- 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.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
- The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
- 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.
- That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A grapple in wrestling.

2. Lock

[v. i.]

- To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

3. Lock

[v. t.]

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
- To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.