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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unlock
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a key unlocks/opens sth
▪ The largest key unlocks the front door.
lock/unlock the door
▪ I locked the door and turned out the lights.
unlock/unleash sb’s potential (=allow them to succeed as well as they can)
▪ Training is a way of unlocking the potential of the workforce.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ He unlocked the car, clicked off the interior light and pushed her across to the passenger seat.
▪ He unlocked the car door for me.
▪ He unlocked the car door, holding it for her while she slipped inside with a quiet murmur of thanks.
▪ On the forecourt he unlocked the car and threw the diaries across on to the passenger seat before sliding in behind the wheel.
▪ He unlocked his car door, opened it, slid with difficulty behind the wheel, closed the door.
▪ He fumbled for a kiss as she unlocked the car but she twisted her cheek away.
door
▪ The door was unlocked when we arrived.
▪ This is a man, after all, who leaves his car keys in the front seat with the doors unlocked.
▪ This time both Arabs got out and the back doors were unlocked.
▪ He located the key on the top of the door frame, unlocked, and turned on the light.
▪ The door was unlocked, so we opened it and went in.
▪ The concerns are real, and doing nothing is analogous to leaving a door unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood.
▪ He listens to me explaining that the front door was unlocked.
▪ I thought I could just leave the door unlocked after having pretended to lock it.
gate
▪ They unlocked this gate and thrust me through it, locked it behind me.
▪ He only could unlock the gate Of heaven, and let us in.
▪ To enter this sanctuary of green, Karim Alameddine unlocks a white iron gate.
▪ Mr Frost's nearly always there, and if he is, he unlocks the gates and lets us in.
▪ I went out through the main entrance and saw the watchman unlocking the gates.
key
▪ It is merely a key which unlocks a door.
▪ There are no keys to unlock doors.
▪ The symbol is the key used to unlock a life experience that is related to the goal of the session.
▪ That court keeps the key which unlocks the estate.
mystery
▪ For the song of the suffering servant helps unlock the mystery that defies logic.
▪ If I succeed it will unlock a lot of the mystery of what's been done on Titron.
▪ Within minutes detectives, a police surgeon and her family arrived to begin the task of unlocking the mystery of her disappearance.
secret
▪ I unlocked the secret, so to speak.
■ VERB
find
▪ They must find a way to unlock the defence other than by simply launching men head first into oblivion.
▪ I went to the humidor one day and found it unlocked.
▪ Then I could find the house and unlock the front door and go in and everything.
▪ Only once he found an unlocked door.
leave
▪ The lavatories also had a birthday, and Dad left ours unlocked with plenty of fresh newspaper on the nail.
▪ The concerns are real, and doing nothing is analogous to leaving a door unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood.
▪ I can't leave it unlocked.
▪ I thought I could just leave the door unlocked after having pretended to lock it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ''Come and see'', Jo said, unlocking a huge iron gate.
Unlock the door! We can't get out!
▪ Which of these keys unlocks the safe?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Half way along he unlocked a garage and let the door slide up to reveal a newish Range Rover.
▪ His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door.
▪ I unlocked the door of the apartment and found that Edusha was still awake.
▪ I began working at Canary Wharf alongside the river, working in all sorts of media in order to unlock certain ideas.
▪ Rockhart says that the critical-success factor approach aims to unlock the manager's implicitly held model of success.
▪ You unlock the front door of your house.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unlock

Unlock \Un*lock"\, v. t. [Cf. AS. unl?can. See 1st Un-, and Lock, v. t.]

  1. To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

  2. To open, in general; to lay open; to undo.

    Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.
    --Pope.

    [Lord] unlock the spell of sin.
    --J. H. Newman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unlock

c.1400, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + lock (v.). Figurative sense is attested from 1530s. Old English had unlucan "to unlock, open." Related: Unlocked; unlocking.\n

Wiktionary
unlock

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination. 2 (context transitive English) To obtain access to something.

WordNet
unlock
  1. v. open the lock of; "unlock the door" [ant: lock]

  2. set free or release

  3. become unlocked; "The door unlocked from the inside" [ant: lock, lock]

Wikipedia
Unlock (charity)

Unlock - for people with convictions, commonly referred to as Unlock, is an independent United Kingdom-based charity, established in 2000 to campaign for the equality of reformed offenders. Unlock describes its vision as “A fair and inclusive society where people with convictions can move on positively in their lives.

Unlock

Unlock may refer to:

  • Unlock (charity), a British charity
  • To undo a Lock (security device)
  • Unlock Democracy, a United Kingdom pressure group
  • Unlock the Gates, a 1973 rock music album by Gypsy

Unlocked or unlocking may refer to:

  • Unlocked (Verbs album), 2003
  • Unlocked (Alexandra Stan album), 2014
  • Unlocked (Meisa Kuroki album), 2012
  • Phone unlocking, the removal of a SIM lock on a mobile phone
  • Unlocking the Mystery of Life, a 2002 intelligent design documentary film
  • Unlocking the Past, a 2007 hard rock/heavy metal music album by Jorn
  • Police Files: Unlocked, a 2006–2008 Australian police documentary television series
  • iOS jailbreaking, removing the limitations imposed by Apple, Inc. on iOS devices
  • Android rooting, allowing users of Android devices to obtain root access within Android's subsystem (similar to iOS jailbreaking)

Unlockable may refer to:

  • Unlockable (gaming), content that is available in video games but not accessible unless something is performed by the user to access to it
    • Unlockable character, characters that can be unlocked in a video game
    • Unlockable games, full video games that can be unlocked within another video game, often as easter eggs

Usage examples of "unlock".

But viewed in the light of apperception, acquired knowledge should be retained and used, for it unlocks the door to more knowledge.

Ross stowed his share of the dynamite more cautiously, unlocked the brakes, put the bulldozer in gear, and backed across the square.

I pointed with the toe of my shoe, and they stopped, stared for a moment, then Mannie pulled the key from his pocket and unlocked the door to my reception room.

Originals know codes that the Multifold can use to unlock its own powers.

I unlocked the door on a delirious Folly and an awful muttony smell of scorched lamb.

She flitted around in front of a service access door that proved to be unlocked and that led down to a similar door that opened onto a darkened section of the Pedway that looked as though it had been under construction but was abandoned when the building had shut down.

The gate proved to be unlocked, and we went down the tunnel, into a damper section of tunnels, rife with the smell of mold, that was clearly not a part of the Pedway proper.

And then the little cavalcade, Maria on Periwinkle, with Wrolf and Wiggins one on each side of her, trotted gaily out of the stableyard, through the garden and out through the unlocked door under the archway into the park.

Unlikely that Jimmy would accidently twist the ring, but Chase locked in the third twist because a three-motion seal was phat impossible to unlock by accident and because, by God, you did the job right or not at all.

He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge.

Hal whispered to Prew as they all stood on the little landing looking across into the dark bulk of the banyan, while he unlocked the door.

We then found ourselves in a small room, and I discovered a key on a table, which I tried on a door opposite to us, which, however, proved to be unlocked.

She unlocked her front door, tossed her keys into their bowl, slid her cell phone into the recharger, then all but skipped into the living room.

Gaunt had made him privy to the unlocked data back on the Absalom, and Mkoll had studied and restudied the schematics carefully.

Taking the keys, Sarge crossed the hall and unlocked another door, turning on lights beyond it.