locking
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locking¹
noun lockings
- gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked. She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, thes
- The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
verb
- present participle and gerund of lock
Locking²
proper noun
- A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lockup, interlock, latch, latching, lock-up, lock-down, lock-out, gating, sealing, hang, siege, blockade, gridlock, lock-in, armoured, block
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noun act by which something is locked
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Talk about this word "locking." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/locking. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. locking. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/locking "locking." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/locking.Cite this
@misc{locking_2026,
title = {locking},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/locking},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
