单词 | locked-in |
释义 | locked-inadj. 1. That is or has been locked in (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ 1941 Welding Jrnl. 20 35 In the event that the locked-in stress is compressive..the slot tends to close and the distance between the outer walls of the grooves diminishes. 1967 Times 16 Nov. 18/2 (advt.) RCA picture tubes, with exclusive Perma-Chrome for locked-in colour purity. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird ix. 101 Look at the locked-in radar I have, which shows what speed I've a reading of for you. 1994 Winnipeg Homes Fall 12/3 If you have locked-in assets from a company pension plan, you can switch the money into a LIRA, or Locked In Retirement Agreement. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 June (Central ed.) w12/3 Americans buying rail passes for Japan can't benefit from locked-in fares. 2. Surfing. Enveloped and carried along inside the hollow curve of a breaking wave (cf. tube n. 11b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [adjective] > enveloped in wave locked-in1965 1965 S. Afr. Surfer 1 iii. 7 Its breathlessly fast hollow waves afford the lucky surfer an easy 300 yard locked-in ride. 1971 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Feb. 27 If the wave is very hollow, as at Gansbaai, then the wave may arch over the surfer and he will get covered up and enjoy a tube ride. This is called being locked in. 1997 Boards Mar. 36/3 No longer was it necessary to worry about every little trick..to get a board going or keep it locked in while travelling at speed. 2001 J. Decure Reef Dance i. 1 I am locked in, encased in the deepest, purest part of the wave. Compounds locked-in syndrome n. Medicine a condition in which the body and most of the muscles of the face are paralysed and the ability to speak is lost, but consciousness and the ability to blink and to perform certain eye movements are retained.Sometimes described as a state of imprisonment within the body, the condition typically results from a stroke which damages part of the brainstem (the ventral pons). ΚΠ 1966 F. Plum & J. B. Posner Diagnosis Stupor & Coma iii. 93 This constellation of alert wakefulness accompanied by mute tetraplegia of brainstem origin we have termed ‘the locked-in syndrome’ to distinguish it from akinetic mutism, which is properly a form of coma. 1997 J. Leggatt tr. J. D. Bauby Diving-Bell & Butterfly 12 You survive, but survive with what is so aptly known as ‘locked-in syndrome’. Paralysed from head to toe, the patient is imprisoned inside his own body, his mind intact, but unable to speak or move. 2009 Independent 27 Nov. 44/2 I read with interest your coverage of Ron Houben, the Belgian student wrongly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years before being correctly identified as a sufferer of ‘locked-in syndrome’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1941 |
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