Tom is trying to break the lock.

A lock is a programming language construct that allows one thread to take control of a variable and prevent other threads from reading or writing it, until that variable is unlocked.

Tom says that he wasn't the one who broke the window.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

I rose up to open to my beloved and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

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.

It is most often fractured in the middle third of its length which is its weakest point.

or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

All it was doing was breaking my arrows because the shark skin is just so strong.

Line Break

The aim was to break the Finnish fighting spirit and force the Finns to the peace table.

Bangladesh Breaking taboos

Who broke this?

Who broke the vase?

Sami broke down the door.

Sami broke his nose.

Breaking Burma s Isolation

1 Breaking the Siege.

John broke the window yesterday.

Who broke this pen?

He broke the window on purpose.

Breaking the Climate Deadlock

Tom broke the window.

The film is a remake of the British film Snatch , with which it shares the tagline too (Stealing stones and Breaking bones).

Breaking China s Investment Addiction

It broke the buck.

My flesh and my skin has he made old he has broken my bones.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my bones.

Breaking the cycle of violence and inequity

France's École des Beaux Arts is, perhaps, the first model for such organized instruction, breaking with a tradition of master and apprentice instruction when it was formed.

Breaking Europe s Climate Change Stalemate

Breaking the Neoclassical Monopoly in Economics

Could provocation help break taboos?

One of the underlying aims of the new structure is to break down barriers between work units and promote synergy, founded on clear accountabilities.

Madeleine Albright This is Breaking the Glass Ceiling.

But it s hard to break our habits, our adult habits.

He proved his dominance over us by breaking even our simplest concepts.

This coalition broke up in June 2008.

For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

We know it is possible to break the cycle of new infections.

That is how We requited them for their ingratitude . We only punish those who are ungrateful .