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locks

n. 1 (plural of lock English) 2 A piece of hair. 3 (context colloquial English) dreadlocks. vb. (en-third-person singular of: lock)

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Locks

Locks may refer to

  • Lock (security device), a fastening device
  • Locks of hair
  • Dreadlocks, matted coils of hair, known as locks
  • Lock (water transport), a device for transferring vessels between bodies of water of different levels
  • LOCKS, the sixth studio album by the band Garnet Crow
  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a peer-to-peer network
  • lock (computer science)

Usage examples of "locks".

The locks on his feet and the top of the tank itself had hidden latches that would instantly release his ankles and the lid.

There were a number of identifiable air locks, one on each side up near the bow, one topside, one on the portside about two thirds of the way back, and one in the belly in the aft third.

If it punctured with both air locks open, it would at the very least decompress the smaller ship, killing everyone on it and probably sucking two or three Marines into space before the emergency protocols closed the inner doors.

The wind ruffled the black locks of his hair as he helped her brothers gather the long tail of the kite.

Splaying her fingers, she speared them through his thick locks, then clutched.

For example, it was easy to remove the wires from the air lock indicator lamp and feed their signal into a relay section removed from the calculator, a section which would send a control pulse to the reactors if the air locks were opened twice.

And a highly intelligent race would discover the warp locks for themselves.

The loose locks of her hair dangled about his eyes, and lie heard the soft sound of her breathing.

They were all locked, as I had expected, and the locks were comparatively new.

The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton locks the gate we shall remain.

I, with my short grizzled hair sticking up straight, and Sir Henry with his yellow locks, which were getting rather long, were rather a contrast, especially as I am thin, and short, and dark, weighing only nine stone and a half, and Sir Henry is tall, and broad, and fair, and weighs fifteen.

But the base of the high partitions was stony ground, with volcanic locks and enormous pumice-stones lying in picturesque heaps.

And on Sunday mornings, every Sunday morning, all the year round, while he is closed to the outer world, and every night after ten, he goes into his bar parlour, bearing a glass of gin faintly tinged with water, and having placed this down, he locks the door and examines the blinds, and even looks under the table.

The locks are so finely adjusted that the doors are released by the action of a certain combination of thought waves.

The second officer made sure that both air locks were fast, and made his way to the long wardroom in the lower part of the ship.