In computer science, a lock is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many threads of execution.

Lock and Key

Lock the gate.

Lock the doors.

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.

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

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?)

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

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.

Mechanism

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

Similarly, the Desertification Convention until recently had only a coordinating mechanism (the Global Mechanism ), not a true financial mechanism.

(In fact, the GEF is the only financial mechanism for the Desertification Convention the Global Mechanism is a coordinating, or resource mobilization, mechanism not a true financial mechanism.

Shop owners would let the girls in and lock the doors, while the mobs tried to break in.

In 2008, Harley added the anti lock braking system as a factory installed option on all VRSC models.

The city of Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Implementing mechanism

Doyle felt grievously exploited by Ward Lock as an author new to the publishing world and he left them.

After the release of prisoners from Haifa lock up, the Arab legion took over the building some time later.

The Global Mechanism for the Convention to Combat Desertification is a coordinating mechanism.

The president, who has supported a process that secretly negotiates agreements, which effectively lock us into the insane system that we have adopted and likely lock us down a path of three strikes, you're out that, of course, the rest of the world are increasingly adopting.

Europe s Instability Mechanism

Clearing house mechanism