locking up

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Present participle of lock up
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to invest in something long term
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to imprison or incarcerate someone
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to cease responding, to freeze
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to close all doors and windows of a place securely
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If you lock something up in a place or container, you put or hide it there and fasten the lock. Give away any food you have on hand, or lock it up and give the key to the neighbours Control of materials could be maintained by locking up bombs
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When you lock up a building or car or lock up, you make sure that all the doors and windows are locked so that nobody can get in. Don't forget to lock up Leave your car here and lock it up
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The point at which a car's tires start to skid
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secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation"
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secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation
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place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
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Disproportionate amount of droop that occurs during the first few hundred cc’s of flow
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A sudden failure in the operation of a program or hard disk Lock ups (also called crashes) can result in the loss of any data entered prior to the last save, but a hard disk crash is much more serious, resulting in extensive loss of data and nearly always requiring reformatting of the disk The most effective way to guard against data loss from lock ups is to back up important files regularly Related terms: Crash, Data, Disk, File, Program, Reformatting, Disk crash
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To lock someone up means to put them in prison or a secure psychiatric hospital. Mr Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client
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imprison, put in jail
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