lock - English word #544

Translation

To close a door or box with a key so no one else can open it.

Word origin

From Old English loc, meaning a fastening for a door.

Verb typeregular (lock, locks, locked)

Please .

"Lock" means to close the door with a key.

outside .

"Locks" is the form used with he, she, or it.

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"Locked" is the past form of "lock".

open

To move something so that it is no longer shut.

close

To move something so it is shut and not open.

keep

To have or hold something and not let it go, or to make something stay the same.

door

The flat part you open and close to go into or out of a room, building, or car.

put

To move something to a place and leave it there.

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