Definition of lock

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• lock is a valid US Scrabble word with a point value of 10
• lock is a valid UK Scrabble word with a point value of 10
• lock is a valid Words With Friends word with a point value of 12

Meanings

Noun

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
• a strand or cluster of hair
• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

Verb

• fasten with a lock
• keep engaged
• become rigid or immoveable
• hold in a locking position
• become engaged or intermeshed with one another
• hold fast (in a certain state)
• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
• pass by means through a lock in a waterway
• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

Synonyms

• shut_up
• operate
• interlace
• engage
• lock_in
• lock_away
• put_away
• lock_chamber
• shut_away
• lock_up
• lock
• curl
• whorl
• ignition_lock
• mesh
• interlock
• ringlet

Antonyms

• unlock
• disengage