lockedadj.1
/lɒkt/, U.S. /lɑkt/ Having hair or locks of hair, esp. of a specified kind.golden-, long-, white-locked, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or secure > in secure custody or possession
lockedOE
sure1462
firm1483
securea1616
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > most
lockedOE
severe1735
secret as the grave1832
hiddenmost1892
OE Glosses to Colloquies of Ælfric Bata (St. John's Oxf. 154) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 222/1 Crinitus : loccad.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12899 Þa fond he þer ane quene..heor-lockede [c1300 Otho hor-ilocket] wif.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 14 Cinsimaculus [probably read Cincinnatulus], hered, locked.
?a1440 Hortus Vocab. in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1923) 45 267 Cincinnalus [perh. read Cincinnatus], i. capillosus, herid, lokkid.
1593 T. Lodge Phillis sig. L1 Looke how fayre locked Iuno was affected, When she the monster-queller did behold.
1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) i. xiii. 954 Those kemb'd and curle lockt Pathicks and prostitutes of unnatural lust, were called from hence Capifricati.
1777 T. Swift Gamblers 37 Thus white-lock'd Paris from th'unequal fray The Queen of Beauty snatch'd in clouds away.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 98 The maid, for a guest so sunnily lock'd deep sighing.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 203 Greasy-locked Afreedee pedlars.
a1918 D. S. Shorter Sixteen Dead Men (1919) 63 Oh, brave heads slain, grey locked and darkly brown.
1997 J. Bernstein Pretty in Pink x. 204 Lucas, lost both in the sweep of the strings and the depth of his feeling for this titian-locked angel, sighs, ‘I just wish school would never start.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lockedadj.2
/lɒkt/, U.S. /lɑkt/ That is or has been locked (in various senses of lock v.1).
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > bolted, barred, or locked
lockfast1453
locked1488
locked-up1579
barred1597
bolted1651
padlocked1731
locked-down1882
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > fitting closely together > interlocked or interlocking
locked1488
complected1828
interlocked1854
interlocking1854
the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > stable > firmly fixed
steadfast993
fastOE
rootfastlOE
sicker1297
sada1333
well-rooted1340
rooteda1393
surec1400
surefast1533
unremoved1551
fixed1577
implanted1595
firm1600
seateda1616
secure1675
tight1687
sitfast1837
locked1895
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 234 A loklate [v.r. lokkit] bar was drawyn ourthourth the dur.
1580 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1832) 125 For taking awaye of ane lokit dur, wt key of ane stabill.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxiii. 1011/2 They slept not in a locked chamber.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. v. 36 Iniury of chance..forcibly preuents Our lock't embrasures. View more context for this quotation
1619 W. Cowper Pathmos v. 175 But locked hearts, and linked hands, haue the men of this Generation.
1753 T. Blackwell Mem. Court of Augustus I. ix. 445 He..retired into the locked Harbour of Milazzo.
1796 B. Rush Med. Inq. & Observ. IV. 29 The intermitting and depressed pulse occurred in many cases. I called it the year before a sulky pulse. One of my pupils, Mr. Alexander, called it more properly a locked pulse.
1857 Brit. Patent 1971 (1858) 3 A locked tambour stitch having a running thread passed through the loops.
1884 R. L. Stevenson in Longman's Mag. Dec. 145 The great struggle, the true tragedy, the scène-à-faire, passes unseen behind the panels of a locked door.
1895 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 30 July 2/3 A locked and swaying mob that moved from right to left and from left to right along the bank.
1921 Safety Engin. July 31/2 Bone and joint defects (ununited fractures, locked knee or elbow joints, etc.).
1996 Newsbytes (Nexis) 26 Apr. ‘Rechipping’ mobile phones..has reached epidemic proportions.., owing to..the number of locked handsets that are re-used.
2011 R. Dinnick in R. Dinnick & M. Tucker Alien Adventures 16 The sonic screwdriver..was best at opening locked doors.
Compounds
C1. With following adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to uses of lock v.1 Phrasal verbs 1. See also locked-in adj.
locked-down adj.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > bolted, barred, or locked
lockfast1453
locked1488
locked-up1579
barred1597
bolted1651
padlocked1731
locked-down1882
1882 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 19 July A mad woman..was placed in a bath-tub having a locked-down lid, with an orifice through which her head and neck passed.
1902 Rep. Comm. Port of London 18/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 1152) XLIII. 1 He accompanies dutiable goods, also, on lighters when the lighterman has not got a locked-down craft.
2000 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. s3/1 Sydney is putting on a remarkably locked-down Olympics. Security is airtight.
locked-out adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [adjective] > keeping or shutting out > kept or shut out
closed outc1275
unadmitted1616
excluded1672
locked-outa1847
outshut1868
a1847 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches (1848) 2nd Ser. 88 The soft tintinnabulary whisper of a gentleman of the convivial turn and of the ‘locked out’ description, who..is desirous of being admitted to his domiciliary comforts.
1853 Illustr. London News 3 Dec. 477/3 The working-men of the metropolis are taking steps to realise a fellow-feeling with the locked-out men of Preston.
1935 R. H. Harvey Samuel Gompers i. ii. 19 Strasser and Gompers worked together raising funds to keep hungry stomachs filled, operating cigar factories to employ the locked-out workers.
2006 S. Schackow Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership & Role Managem. xi. 453 A locked-out user account is no longer allowed to validate passwords with the provider.
locked-up adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > of eyes: closed by or heavy with sleep
locked-up1579
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > bolted, barred, or locked
lockfast1453
locked1488
locked-up1579
barred1597
bolted1651
padlocked1731
locked-down1882
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > in a locked place or container
locked-up1579
uplocked1609
1579 J. Harmar tr. J. Calvin Serm. X. Commandementes iii. f. 18 It behoueth that all our senses bee locked vp captiues [Fr. ferrez & captiuez].
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3v Shee much amaz'd breakes ope her lockt vp eyes. View more context for this quotation
1640 R. Hearne Ros Cœli 261 Wealth in a Misers hand is uselesse, as a lockt up treasure: It is charity only that makes Riches worth the owning.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument (title page) All Its Occult Lock'd-up Secrets Plainly laid Open.
1721 A. Ramsay Morning Interview 8 He starts with lock'd-up eyes.
1747 London Mag. Sept. 384/1 Each Actress now a lock'd up Nun must be, And priestly Managers must keep the Key.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 134 A locked-up iron room with three locks.
1891 Daily News 9 Dec. 6/3 Locked-up securities left on the hands of the bank.
1918 Daily Chron. 14 Apr. 3/5 The locked up churches are silent witnesses of our prayerless lives.
1968 Life 26 July 19/2 Naturally this kind of a locked-up situation is enormously frustrating to a great mass of people.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 May 24/3 All those locked-up bad guys require stuff like the Bob Barker Company's Maximum Security toothpaste (a clear tube prevents hidden contraband).
C2.
locked-coil n. Engineering attributive designating a rope or cable which has the outer strands of such a shape as to lock together and form a smooth cylindrical surface.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [adjective] > made of rope or cord > types of
twine1513
twice-laid1592
basten1677
cable-laid1723
hawser-laid1769
water-laid1795
registered1800
shroud-laid1800
whale-laid1812
strap-laid1839
four-strand1867
locked-coil1885
trifilar1903
1885 Cassell's Family Mag. Dec. 59/1 A new kind of rope, called the locked-coil rope, has recently been brought out.
1952 T. Bryson Mining Machinery (ed. 3) x. 246 The desire to increase further the wearing surface of ropes led to construction of locked-coil ropes.
2012 H. Svensson Cable-stayed Bridges iii. 175/1 Locked coil ropes for cable-stayed bridges are stressed with hydraulic jacks.
locked groove n. a circular groove on a gramophone record, in which the stylus remains until raised out of it; spec. one towards the centre of a record (following the recorded material) into which the normal spiral groove runs.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > groove
groove1902
track1904
fine-groove1948
microgroove1948
locked groove1956
coarse groove1958
run-in1962
1956 Notes Mar. 193 (advt.) With locked grooves for ad libitum performance of the cadenzas and metronomic taps during unaccompanied solo passages.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 207 On disc, using locked grooves to provide rhythmic repetitions.
2012 K. Gloag Postmodernism in Music vii. 130 The conclusion of the recording defines this meditation on time through the ending of the original LP on a locked groove, which made the sound in effect endless.
locked jaw n. a jaw that opens or closes with difficulty; a condition causing this (= lockjaw n. 1); also in figurative contexts (cf. lock-jawed adj. 1).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > tetanus
tetanusa1398
shotec1440
opisthotonos1582
emprosthotonos1585
jaw-fallen1631
tetanism1681
trismus1684
locked jaw1754
lockjaw1768
pleurothotonos1783
seven day disease1789
orthotonos1869
pleurotonus1899
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > dislocation > of jaw
locked jaw1754
jawfall1786
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > of specific muscles
dog spasm1615
wry-mouth1661
risus sardonius1663
lifeblood1733
locked jaw1754
laryngismus1822
podism1858
blepharospasm1872
Saturday night palsy1887
wrist clonus1888
cardiospasm1896
pylorospasm1898
wrist jerk1899
histrionic spasm1912
main d'accoucheur1926
twister's cramp-
1754 J. Warner Cases Surg. xiii. 56 From this time he went on very well for several Weeks, but was at length seized with general Convulsions, attended with the symptom of a locked Jaw, which killed him.
1763 Med. Museum II. 13 In England we generally to this disease give the name of the locked jaw.
1802 J. West Infidel Father III. 4 A private ball has been known to save half a county from such an immoderate fit of yawning, that people grew apprehensive of locked jaws.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 484 In some a locked jaw takes place about the seventh day from the operation.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 9 So that no man shall henceforth contemplate them without..danger of locked-jaw.
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 June 1396/2 Certain persons on seeing a cat have other symptoms... There may be added chilly sensations, horripilation, weakness, locked jaw, [etc.].
2006 Social Probl. 53 24 E. S. was referred to the psychotherapeutic unit of the Leipziger's university neurological clinic in 1962 suffering from a locked jaw that had persisted several weeks after the removal of an infected wisdom tooth.
locked-room adj. designating a mystery or detective story involving a crime scene which no criminal could apparently have entered or left (such as a locked room); of or characteristic of such mysteries; frequently in locked-room mystery.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] > involving locked room
locked-room1919
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [adjective] > other specific types of fictional story
metamorphosic1782
locked-room1919
sealed room1939
suspense1952
procedural1956
Boy's Own1967
1919 Times 7 Nov. 9/4 (headline) Islington locked room mystery.
1942 H. Haycraft Murder for Pleasure vi. 104 The Mystery of the Yellow Room..remains..the most brilliant of all ‘locked room’ novels.
1954 J. Symons Narrowing Circle iii. 14 I listened to the dictabook on my desk, which was a deliberately old-fashioned locked-room style detective story.
1994 J. T. Irwin Mystery to Solution (1996) 411 The mental problem linked with the antagonist (the locked-room puzzle) is..a variant of the labyrinth.
2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo xii. 208 It's actually a fascinating case. What I believe is known in the trade as a locked-room mystery, on an island.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lockedadj.3
/lɒkt/, U.S. /lɑkt/ 1. Of a canal or river: provided with locks. Cf. lock v.1 16b.
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?1770 J. Watt Scheme Navigable Canal 11 If the quantity [of coals] was encreased, they would be carried cheapest on the locked canal.
1819 D. Thomas Trav. Western Country 30 The mill-dams on this stream are locked.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Feb. 8/2 A ‘locked’ ship canal for large ocean steamers between Runcorn and Manchester.
1966 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 114 215 This, the most heavily locked canal in England, was opened to navigation by our President, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, last July.
2011 R. R. Hanks Encycl. Geogr. Terms, Themes, & Concepts 325 The Panama Canal is a locked canal that connects the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
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1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 His locked, letter'd, braw brass-collar.
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