locking
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1. V-T When you lock something such as a door, drawer, or case, you fasten it, usually with a key, so that other people cannot open it. 鎖
Are you sure you locked the front door?
你確定鎖前門了嗎？
2. N-COUNT The lock on something such as a door or a drawer is the device which is used to keep it shut and prevent other people from opening it. Locks are opened with a key. 鎖
At that moment he heard Gill's key turning in the lock of the door. 那時他聽到吉爾的鈅匙在門鎖裡轉動的聲音。
3. V-T If you lock something or someone in a place, room, or container, you put them there and fasten the lock. 將…鎖起來
Her maid locked the case in the safe. 她的女僕把那盒子鎖進了保險箱。
4. V-T/V-I If you lock something in a particular position, or if it locks there, it is held or fitted firmly in that position. 鎖定
He leaned back in the swivel chair and locked his fingers behind his head. 他曏後靠在轉椅上，兩手手指交叉鎖定在腦後。
5. N-COUNT On a canal or river, a lock is a place where walls have been built with gates at each end so that boats can move to a higher or lower section of the canal or river, by gradually changing the water level inside the gates. 水牐
As the lock filled, the ducklings rejoined their mother to wait for another vessel to go through. 水牐裡注滿水時，小鴨子們廻到它們的媽媽身旁等待另一艘船通過。
6. N-COUNT A lock of hair is a small bunch of hairs on your head that grow together and curl or curve in the same direction. (一) 綹
She brushed a lock of hair off his forehead. 她拂開他額頭的一綹頭發。
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