Locking vs Cocking - What's the difference?
locking | cocking |
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.
(archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
(obsolete) Cockfighting.
* 1792 , The European Magazine, and London Review (volume 21, page 313)
(vulgar) offensive or worthless
* 2000 , Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)
As verbs the difference between locking and cocking
is that locking is while cocking is .As nouns the difference between locking and cocking
is that locking is the act by which something is locked while cocking is (archaic) the hunting of gamecocks.As an adjective cocking is
(vulgar) offensive or worthless.locking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(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...
Derived terms
* double-checked lockingcocking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races
Derived terms
* cocker, cocker spanielAdjective
(-)- "Son of a cocking bastard."