different between lock vs clinch

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: Locke

Etymology 1

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luk?. The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English l?can, Proto-West Germanic *l?kan, from Proto-Germanic *l?kan?. Doublet of luxe.

Noun

lock (plural locks)

1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
2. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
3. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
   • 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

     Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.

4. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

5. Complete control over a situation.
   • 2003, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds

     Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

6. Something sure to be a success.
   • 2004, Avery Corman, A perfect divorce

     Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

7. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
8. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
   • 1834, Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

9. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

10. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
11. A grapple in wrestling.

    • They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• lock time
• lock, stock and barrel

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: lok
• ? Hawaiian: laka

Translations

Verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

1. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
2. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.

3. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

4. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.

5. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

6. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
9. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
10. (Internet, transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.

    Frequently vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.

Antonyms

• (to fasten with a lock; to be capable of becoming fastened in place): unlock

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Old Norse lokkr (whence Danish lok), German Locke. It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *???????????????????? (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb".

Noun

lock (plural locks)

2. A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
   • If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?

3. A small quantity of straw etc.
4. (Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• KLOC, Kloc

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lock

1. singular imperative of locken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of locken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lock c or n

1. (chiefly in the plural) a lock of hair
2. a cover, a lid
3. popping (as when ears pop)

   Få lock för örat.

   Be deafened.

4. a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards
5. call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka)

   med lock och pock

Declension

Derived terms

• Få lock för örat: be deafened. When you have bad hearing from the change in air pressure due to an air plane flight. So it’s sort of like having a casserole cover in your ear

Related terms

• grytlock
• hårlock

References

• lock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

16th-century alteration of clench.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

clinch (third-person singular simple present clinches, present participle clinching, simple past and past participle clinched)

1. To clasp; to interlock. [from 1560s]
2. To make certain; to finalize. [from 1716]
3. To fasten securely or permanently.
4. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. [17th century]
5. To embrace passionately.
6. To hold firmly; to clench.
7. To set closely together; to close tightly.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Duty of Servants at Inns

     try if the heads of the nails be fast, and whether they be well clinched

Synonyms

• (fasten securely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
• (hold firmly): clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp

Translations

Noun

clinch (plural clinches)

1. Any of several fastenings.
2. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.

3. (obsolete) A pun.
4. (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
5. A passionate embrace.
   • 2015, Judith Arnold, Moondance

     More likely, he was letting her know that his visit this morning was not going to end in a clinch—or something steamier. It was going to be about sitting at a table, drinking coffee and talking.

6. In combat sports, the act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.

Translations

See also

• clinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clench
• clincher
• clinch nut