Lock vs Steal - What's the difference?
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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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(lb) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
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*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal'. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't ' steal ."
To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
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(lb) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
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*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly,and do not think to steal it.
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To acquire at a low price.
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(lb) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
(lb) To move silently or secretly.
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*1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Ch.1:
*:"Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He will steal himself into a man's favour.
To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
To dispossess
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 12, author=Les Roopanarine, work=BBC
, title= The act of stealing.
A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
(basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
(baseball) A stolen base.
(curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
(computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs
As a proper noun lock
is .As a verb steal is
(lb) to take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.As a noun steal is
the act of stealing.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 * sidelocksteal
English
Verb
Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=United's hopes of mounting a serious response suffered a blow within two minutes of the restart when Evans, who had endured a miserable afternoon, lost concentration and allowed Balotelli to steal in behind him. The defender's only reaction was to haul the Italian down, resulting in an inevitable red card.}}
Birmingham 1-0 Stoke, passage=However, until Gardner stole the ball from Dean Whitehead in the centre circle with the half-hour approaching, setting off on a run which culminated with a testing long-range shot - with debutant Obafemi Martins lurking, Begovic gathered at the second time of asking - Stoke looked the more credible contenders to break the deadlock.}}
Synonyms
* (to illegally take possession of) flog, (Cockney rhyming slang) half-inch, (slang) knock off, (slang) jack, lift, nick, pinch, pocket, rob, thieve, confiscate, convert * (to secretly move) sneak * See alsoAntonyms
* (acquire licitly ) receive, purchase, buy, earn * (provide freely ) donate, bestow, grantTroponyms
* shopliftSee also
* burglarize * burgle * confiscate * pickpocket * pilfer * steal awayNoun
(en noun)- At this price, this car is a steal .
