Associations to the word «Locking»

Wiktionary

LOCKING, verb. Present participle of lock
LOCKING, noun. The act by which something is locked.
LOCKING, noun. (computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
LOCKING OUT, verb. Present participle of lock out
LOCKING UP, verb. Present participle of lock up

Dictionary definition

LOCKING, noun. The act of locking something up to protect it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope