Locking vs Popping - What's the difference?
locking | popping |
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.
The act or sound of something that pops.
* Ernest Eckford Tucker, Osteopathic Technique
A funk dance.
As verbs the difference between locking and popping
is that locking is while popping is .As nouns the difference between locking and popping
is that locking is the act by which something is locked while popping is the act or sound of something that pops.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 lockingpopping
English
Noun
(wikipedia popping)- Poppings at various points along the spine may be noted, which may or may not have significance.