Buckle vs Lock - What's the difference?
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To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
(figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
* Samuel Pepys
(obsolete) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
* Latimer
* Shakespeare
To buckle down; to apply oneself.
* Barrow
* J. D. Forbes
* Fuller
(countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
(Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
* Washington Irving
* Addison
A contorted expression, as of the face.
* Churchill
To fasten using a buckle.
(Scotland) To unite in marriage.
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
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, 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.
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, 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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In intransitive terms the difference between buckle and lock
is that buckle is to yield; to give way; to cease opposing while lock is to be capable of becoming fastened in place.In transitive terms the difference between buckle and lock
is that buckle is to fasten using a buckle while lock is to intertwine or dovetail.As a proper noun Lock is
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English
(wikipedia buckle)Etymology 1
From a frequentative form of .Verb
(buckl)- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled , preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
- It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
- The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .
- The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
- In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
- To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
- Before buckling to my winter's work.
- Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
Etymology 2
* Noun: (etyl) bocle, from (etyl) . * Verb: bokelen "to arch the body," from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
- earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face
- lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year
- 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.
Verb
- (Sir Walter Scott)
See also
* buckle down * buckle up * turnbuckleAnagrams
*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?
