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Locking vs Lucking - What's the difference?

locking | lucking |

As verbs the difference between locking and lucking

is that locking is present participle of lang=en while lucking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun locking

is the act by which something is locked.

locking

English

Verb

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  • 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

    lucking

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    Verb

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