Locking

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

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.”

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