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LOCKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of locking something up to protect it
Synonyms:
locking; lockup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("locking" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb lock
Context examples:
These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He opened the door, and we filed out, he coming last and locking the door behind him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had just taken the paper; and was locking the cupboard, when the young man seized me.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had a considerable independence besides two good livings—and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They went out, locking the door of the theatre behind them; and Utterson, once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, trudged back to his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dan Finotello, a program director in NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate adds, This polymer integrates fast reversible and reprogrammable actuation, shape locking and untethered operation for applications in soft robotics, morphing structures, and deformable electronics, especially for designing active and adaptive guidewires, catheters and stents that could potentially enable the next generation of biomedical devices for minimally invasive operations.
(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)
I was none too soon; for the boat-builder, with a lantern in his hand, was locking the yard-gate.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An attempt at concealment had been her first instinctive movement on perceiving him, yet she could scarcely hope to have escaped his eye; and when her friend, who with an apologizing look darted hastily by her, had joined and disappeared with him, she ran for safety to her own room, and, locking herself in, believed that she should never have courage to go down again.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
