adj
Meaning 1
Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- A locked door barred the way.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
locked
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /lɒkt/
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General-American: /lɑkt/
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rhymes with -ɒkt
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CMU ARPABET: L AA1 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- You can't delete a locked computer file.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Very drunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Bound to a carrier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, mobile-telephony, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unlocked
adj
Meaning 5
Styled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: loc'd, dreadlocked
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
simple past and past participle of lock
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
* (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Northern Altai: пектӱ (pektü) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Southern Altai: бектӱ (bektü) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Southern Altai: јабылу (ǰabïlu) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Arabic: مُقْفَل (muqfal) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Azerbaijani: qıfıllı — that has been locked (with a key)
- Bashkir: бикле (bikle) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Bashkir: бикте (bikte) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Bulgarian: заключен (zaključen) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Catalan: tancat — that has been locked (with a key)
- Catalan: tancat amb clau — that has been locked (with a key)
- Esperanto: ŝlosita — that has been locked (with a key)
- Finnish: lukittu — that has been locked (with a key)
- French: fermé à clé — that has been locked (with a key)
- French: fermé à clef — that has been locked (with a key)
- French: verrouillé — that has been locked (with a key)
- German: abgesperrt — that has been locked (with a key)
- German: abgeschlossen — that has been locked (with a key)
- German: zugeschlossen — that has been locked (with a key)
- Hebrew: נעול (naúl) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Hungarian: zárt — that has been locked (with a key)
- Hungarian: bezárt — that has been locked (with a key)
- Hungarian: lezárt — that has been locked (with a key)
- Italian: chiuso a chiave — that has been locked (with a key)
- Kyrgyz: бекилген (bekilgen) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Kyrgyz: жабылган (jabılgan) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Māori: raka — that has been locked (with a key)
- Persian: قفل (qofl) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Polish: zamknięty — that has been locked (with a key)
- Polish: zakluczony — that has been locked (with a key)
- Portuguese: trancado — that has been locked (with a key)
- Romanian: încuiat — that has been locked (with a key)
- Russian: за́пертый (zápertyj) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Russian: закры́тый (zakrýtyj) — that has been locked (with a key)
- Scots: lockt — that has been locked (with a key)
- Scots: lockit — that has been locked (with a key)
- Scottish Gaelic: glaiste — that has been locked (with a key)
- Slovak: zamknutý — that has been locked (with a key)
- Spanish: cerrado con llave / seguro / llavín — that has been locked (with a key)
- Swedish: låst — that has been locked (with a key)
- Turkish: kilitli — that has been locked (with a key)
- Turkish: kitli — that has been locked (with a key)
- Vietnamese: khoá — that has been locked (with a key)
- Hungarian: zárolt — computing: protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource
- Hungarian: szolgáltatóhoz/hálózathoz kötött — mobile telephony: bound to a carrier
- Russian: зало́ченый (zalóčenyj) — mobile telephony: bound to a carrier
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