Meaning of lock out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
   transitive
2. To prevent from accessing a data structure.
3. (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
   transitive
4. (colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate.
   intransitive, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I've locked myself out of my room again!”

“The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.”

“Bro, I am totally locked out on this assignment.”

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