The thread holding the lock is free to execute its critical section (the section of a program that requires exclusive access to some variable), and to unlock the data when it is finished.

Lock and Key

Lock the gate.

Lock the doors.

New financing could unlock today s policy inertia over climate change.

Unable to lock the download directory

Never forget to lock the door.

Why didn't you lock the door?

Sami knew the window didn't lock.

And plus, he said he was going to get rid of the Caps Lock key and the Num Lock key, too.

Please lock the door when you leave.

Tom is trying to break the lock.

Later Ms. Lock (Vice Chairman) (South Africa)

Chairman Ms. Lock (Vice Chairman) (South Africa)

Don't forget to lock up when you leave.

Cutting edge technologies, together with strong community leadership, can unlock long term sustainable development.

Did you forget to lock the door last night?

Sharyn Lock links to footage of the incident here.

The cybercrime law compels journalists to lock their mouths

Ms. Lock (South Africa), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

or What's this Num Lock key for? You know, that thing?

Australian activist Sharyn Lock writes (February 16) at Tales to Tell

And, in the process of freeing people from the burden of disease, we will unlock immeasurable human potential.

You may have heard about the Kryptonite lock brouhaha, where a blogger talked about how you hack, or break into, a Kryptonite lock using a ballpoint pen, and it spread all over. Kryptonite had to adjust the lock, and they had to address it to avoid too many customer concerns.

I want you to go to your rooms and lock the doors.

I want you to go to your rooms and lock the doors.

Could not regain the system lock! (Perhaps another apt or dpkg is running?)

This serial number is used to unlock two comic panels at the second new addition to the AFAO website, Metastasis.

The year 2005 marks 100 years since Albert Einstein's ground breaking work began to unlock the secrets of the atom.

But you cannot exploit this cycle of victim murderer and lock us inside it.

Additional assets must be provided and more creative synergies must be found within the United Nations system to unlock existing potential.

A side benefit would be to unlock a huge international agenda for energy, the environment, and sustainability, where American leadership is required.

It also has a lengthy coastline and a deepwater port, Berbera, which could help land locked Ethiopia unlock even more economic growth.

Both effects can lead to increased trade in illiquid assets today, and unlock lending, though this outcome may require significant government outlays.

Investments in physical infrastructure such as transport, water, sanitation, power and communications, unlock growth potentials and overcome geographical handicaps in low income countries.

I mean, in retrospect, probably stupid questions, but things like, What's this Caps Lock key for?

Energy investment decisions made today will lock in the world s emissions profile for years to come.

These changes involve replacement of capital stock and avoiding long term, carbon intensive technology lock in.

So I am convinced that if we can unlock the technologies that are commonplace in the richer world to be able to transform foods.

My big idea is a very, very small idea that can unlock billions of big ideas that are at the moment dormant inside us.

Fourth is education. Once a human being has water, food and health he needs to learn to open new horizons and unlock new possibilities.

The Republican Party s real game is to try to lock that income and wealth advantage into place.

That way, economically irrational lock in effects, whereby workers simply cannot afford to change jobs, are avoided.

The Gülen movement uses these trials to lock up critics and replace opponents in important state posts.

In the absence of Mr. MacKay (New Zealand), Ms. Lock (South Africa), Vice Chairman, took the Chair