Fixing vs Locking - What's the difference?
fixing | locking |
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The act by which something is locked.
* 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
(computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
As nouns the difference between fixing and locking
is that fixing is the act of subverting a vote while locking is the act by which something is locked.As verbs the difference between fixing and locking
is that fixing is while locking is .fixing
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Alternative forms
* (modal verb) fina, finnaVerb
(head)Alternative forms
* fixin'Synonyms
* (going) about, fittingSee also
* going tolocking
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(en noun)- On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...