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The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
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deadbolt
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Deadbolt is a 1992 made-for-television thriller film , by Douglas Jackson , and starring Justine Bateman , Adam Baldwin , and Michele Scarabelli .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Close the door and mark the area for the deadbolt . ▪ Open the door; hold the striker plate against the door frame in line with the deadbolt mark, and pencil in the outline.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key [syn: bolt ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged. 2 A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a spring and so can not be retracted except by turning the cylinder. vb. (context transitive ...
Usage examples of deadbolt.
With the frame no longer in the way, she pulled the door to the left, and on the right side, the deadbolts slid out of the striker plates.
Lots of deadbolts and an iron bar across the middle to keep out intruders, but nothing to keep anyone from leaving.
All the wood trim was painted mud brown, and the one street-facing window was papered over with hand-lettered signs that detailed the services offered: deadbolts installed, keys fitted, locks installed and repaired, floor and wall safes installed, combinations changed.
In the breathless moment of arrival, before any of them inhaled or exhaled, Dylan heard the click of a passkey in a lock and then the scrape of the deadbolt being disengaged in a slow and cautious fashion meant to make as little noise as feasible.
Some time after Dan Mason pulled the front door to the house on Belisle shut and locked the deadbolt with his key, the pretty porcelain knob on the door to the little room under the stairs turned and freed itself from the restraint of the latch.
The door to his office is locked, deadbolted, and he is apparently the only one who has a key.
The boy wheeled my chair to a bedroom with a single bed, a chemical toilet, and a deadbolt on the door that could only be unlocked from the outside.
He assumed there would be a deadbolt as well, because Santa Monica was as crime-ridden as any town in or around Los Angeles, but maybe he would get lucky.
He still had the Lockaid lock-release gun that he had used to spring the deadbolt at Reynerd’s apartment.
To open the heavy-duty deadbolt, he needed a more sophisticated tool than a credit card: a Lockaid lock-release gun, sold only to law-enforcement agencies.
Self shut the door behind him and wasted no time flipping the deadbolt, as if he is the one she is locking out.
The deadbolt skreeked against the striker plate, and the squeal of shearing metal rose from the tortured hinges, and wood splintered with a dry cracking sound.
Had Robertson been poised to burst in upon me, he ought to have reacted to the deadbolt retracting from the striker plate in the door frame.
Tommy asked, closing the door behind him and engaging the thumb turn deadbolt.
Dayne locked the door and the deadbolt and the night lock and started closing up for the night.