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Locking vs Inlock - What's the difference?

locking | inlock |

As verbs the difference between locking and inlock

is that locking is while inlock is to lock in.

As nouns the difference between locking and inlock

is that locking is the act by which something is locked while inlock is a locking in.

locking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is locked.
  • * 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
    • 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...
  • (computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.

    • Derived terms

    * double-checked locking

    inlock

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lock in.
  • To inclose.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A locking in.
  • *1898 , The Western dental journal:
    • The lower jaw slides forward on account of the inlock of these upper teeth.
  • That which is locked in.
  • The process of locking in.
  • An inner or interior lock.
  • A lock allowing entry in or into.
  • *1998 , Twins of the eastern Niger:
    • He took his American diplomatic portfolio, handled it on his left-hand and took is bunch of car key then inserted the inlock and locked the door.
  • Any corner or part of a common field plowed up and sowed with oats, etc. and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge while the lave of the field lies fallow and common.