Locking vs Nocking - What's the difference?
locking | nocking |
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.
As verbs the difference between locking and nocking
is that locking is present participle of lang=en while nocking is present participle of nock.As a noun locking
is the act by which something is locked.locking
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(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...