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Locked vs Unlock - What's the difference?

locked | unlock |

As verbs the difference between locked and unlock

is that locked is (lock) while unlock is to undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.

As a adjective locked

is of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).

locked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lock)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
  • (Dublin) Very drunk.A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan , p.142.
  • unlock

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
  • To obtain access to something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge.
  • To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
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  • He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked .