Lock vs Bang - What's the difference?
lock | bang | Synonyms |
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
*, chapter=13
, title= A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
* 2005 , Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster
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
The firing mechanism of a gun.
* 1837 , (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
Complete control over a situation.
* 2003 , (Charley Rosen), The Wizard of Odds
Something sure to be a success.
* 2004 , (Avery Corman), A perfect divorce
(label) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=Septembe 24, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
* (Thomas De Quincey) (1785-1859)
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
A grapple in wrestling.
(label) To become fastened in place.
*, chapter=13
, title= (label) To fasten with a lock.
(label) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
(label) To intertwine or dovetail.
To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
tuft or length of hair
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A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
(US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
* W. D. Howells
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(US) The symbol , known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(label) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(label) To hit hard.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
To engage in sexual intercourse.
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* 1972 , (Mario Puzo) and (Francis Ford Coppola), (The Godfather) (film):
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
(label) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
* The Century Magazine
, directly.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia
, work=BBC Sport
Precisely.
With a sudden impact.
a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
Lock is a synonym of bang.
As a proper noun lock
is .lock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- "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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock .}}
- the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.
- Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock .
- "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock , as if that would do any good.
- Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.
- Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania, passage=Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava. }}
- Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages
- (Dryden)
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* alcolock * ankle lock * anti-lock * caps lock * flash lock * flat lock * flintlock * genlock * gridlock * leglock * liplock * lockfast * lock time * * lockbox * lockmaster * locknote * locksmithing * lockstep * matchlock * num lock * overlock * padlock * picklock * scroll lock * staircase lock * tide lock * time lockVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked , of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}
Antonyms
* unlockDerived terms
* lock and load * lock horns * lock in * lock lips * lock on * lock out * lock up * lockable * relock * unlockableEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) (m) (whence (etyl) (m)), (etyl) (m). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the (etyl) verb in its ancient meaning to curb .Noun
(en noun)- 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?
Derived terms
* daglock * elflock * forelock * goldilocks * sidelockbang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang .
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs .
- his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- Load the bang into the hole.
Synonyms
* strike, blow * explosion * (hair cut) fringe, bangs * exclamation point, exclamation markAntonyms
* (abrupt left turn) hangVerb
(en verb)- The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
Synonyms
* nailAdverb
(en adverb)- The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
citation, page= , passage=After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.}}
- ''He arrived bang on time.
- Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Interjection
(en interjection)- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang !"