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单词 lockdown
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lockdownn.

Brit. /ˈlɒkdaʊn/, U.S. /ˈlɑkˌdaʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: lock v.1, down adv.
Etymology: < lock v.1 + down adv. In sense 2 after to lock down at lock v.1 Phrasal verbs 1.
Originally North American.
1. Originally: a piece of wood used in the construction of rafts when transporting timber downriver, consisting of a strip or branch bent around the horizontal poles and secured into holes in the logs. Later: a peg, pin, or similar device used to fasten something in place.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg
preenOE
prickOE
kevel1251
pina1275
prag1354
key1434
peg1440
tholec1440
thole-pinc1440
lock1514
cotterel1570
pivot1730
pinning1742
steady pin1791
gib1795
needle1811
lockdown1832
cotter1842
peglet1890
pushpin1903
1832 Private & Special Acts Maine (12th Legislature) 450 That it shall be the duty of said corporation to raft all lumber in said boom without any unnecessary delay, securely and faithfully with suitable poles and lock-downs.
1895 Davenport (Iowa) Weekly Leader 14 Aug. 1/13 Poles,..to which each log was fastened by wooden pegs and lock-downs.
1958 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 10 July 11/2 The poles were held down by bent oak pins called lockdowns.
1981 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Sept. 205 Other features include 360 degrees serrated locking swivel base with double lockdowns.
2012 J. H. Wright Blazing Ice vii. 106 Three pineapple lockdowns on our container sleds broke. These were nearly indestructible devices that tie the container van to the sled base.
2.
a. The confinement of prisoners to their cells for an extended period of time, usually as a security measure following a disturbance; the time at which such confinement begins. Also in the context of a psychiatric hospital or other secure unit. Frequently in on lockdown, in lockdown.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun]
prisonOE
bonda1225
beclosing?c1225
narrowth?c1225
holdc1330
banda1400
festinance1426
duressc1430
enclosingc1440
closeness1530
durancea1535
closure1592
reclusedness1613
confinement1646
immurement1736
immuration1895
hack1899
prisonment1900
lockdown1973
1973 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 3 Dec. 1 A full-scale lockdown..was imposed immediately after the knifing.
1981 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 20 Nov. Three patients fled the hospital early Thursday, raising to 10 the number of escapes this month from Patton State Hospital and triggered a lockdown at the facility.
1988 W. Churchill & J. Vander Wall Agents of Repression xi. 326 [He] has spent some ten and one-half years in prison..and much of this in solitary confinement or under conditions of general ‘lockdown’.
1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. ii. 8/3 Pontiac already has been on lockdown nearly full time—last year inmates there were confined to their cells round-the-clock for 264 days.
1998 P. Melville Migration of Ghosts (1999) 151 One afternoon in the dormitory after lock-down, a strong wind began to blow through the bars.
2006 Daily Tel. 13 July 7/1 They will be in total lockdown for 23 out of 24 hours.
b. More generally: a state of isolation, containment, or restricted access, usually instituted for security purposes or as a public health measure; the imposition of this state.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun]
sequestration1565
soleness1587
removednessa1616
sequestera1616
segregation1668
separation1685
insulation1798
isolation1833
social isolation1833
asideness1880
purdah1912
lockdown1984
1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 14 Dec. They instituted a ‘security lockdown’ at the PUREX plant Monday when a can containing..plutonium sludge was found to be missing.
2002 Quill (Nexis) 1 May 34 We heard the city was on lockdown and that it wasn't possible to get in.
2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 May 3/5 Contestants go into lockdown tomorrow isolated from the outside world as they prepare to enter the Big Brother house on Sunday.
2020 Maldon & Burnham Standard (Nexis) 21 June It's been nearly three months since the lockdown was officially imposed in the UK to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
c. Computing. Restriction of access to data or systems; an instance of this.
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1986 PC Mag. 23 Dec. 285/1 And since you can enter a different password at the beginning of each lockdown, there's nothing stored on disk where a clever prier could find it.
1999 Computerworld 11 Oct. 8/1 (heading) Many users plan Y2K lockdowns.
2011 S. Pon et al. in B. P. Fuhrman et al. Pediatric Crit. Care (ed. 4) viii. 88/1 There should be a mechanism for automatic logout or lockdown if there is no activity over a specified period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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