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Locking vs Lockup - What's the difference?

locking | lockup |

As nouns the difference between locking and lockup

is that locking is the act by which something is locked while lockup is (slang) a jail, prison.

As a verb locking

is .

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

    lockup

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A jail, prison.
  • :He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.
  • (UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage
  • :Joe keeps his other car in a lockup downtown.

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