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Meaning of Locking | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard

Definitions

  1. gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
    form-of, gerund
  2. A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
  3. The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
  4. A surname.

Equivalents

العربية القفل غلق
Deutsch Locking Sperrung
Français Locking
Svenska läsning
Türkçe kilitleme

Examples

“She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t 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, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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