lock – English noun declension

English noun forms of lock

Noun: lock
Singularlock
Plurallocks

Sample Sentences

  • "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling. [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:]
  • We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • [T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it. [2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster:]
  • Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock. [1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo:]
  • "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good. [1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:]
  • Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game. [2003, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds:]
  • Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere. [2004, Avery Corman, A perfect divorce:]
  • Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava. [2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:]
  • [O]n may of his lecture days I have seen all Albemarle Street closed by a "lock" of carriages, filled with women of distinction, until the servants of the Institution or their own footmen advanced to the carriage-doors with the intelligence that Mr. Coleridge had been suddenly taken ill. [1834 September–November; 1835 January, Thomas De Quincey, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 207:]
  • Sergestus, eager with his beak to press / Betwixt the rival galley and the rock, / Shuts up the unwieldy Centaur in the lock [1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling [[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *luką
4. Proto-West Germanic *lok
5. Old English loc
6. Middle English lok
7. English lock
8. From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).
9. Cognate with Cimbrian loch, lòch (“hole”), Dutch lok (“hole”), German Loch (“hole”), German Low German Lock (“hole”), Luxembourgish Lach (“hole”), Vilamovian łöch (“hole”), Yiddish לאָך (lokh, “hole”), Danish låg (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Bokmål lokk (“lid, cover”), Norwegian Nynorsk lok, lokk (“lid, cover”).
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11. The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Cognate with Dutch luiken (“to close, to shut”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål lukke (“to close, to shut”), Faroese lúka (“to end, to finish”), Icelandic ljúka (“to close, to shut”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukka (“to close, to shut”). Related to luxe via Latin. See: Middle English Nouns 'lok', Old English Nouns 'loc', Dutch Nouns 'lok', German Nouns 'Loch', Danish Nouns 'låg', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'lokk', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'lok', Old English Nouns 'lūcan', Faroese Nouns 'lúka', Icelandic Nouns 'ljúka'.

Verbs referencing "lock"

English Nouns luxe, Danish Nouns låg, Old Norse Nouns lykkja, German Nouns Locke, Finnish Nouns lukko, Swedish Nouns nyckel, Swedish Nouns lycka, French Nouns loque, Swedish Nouns lucka.