lock out

See also: lockout and lock-out

English

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Verb

lock out (third-person singular simple present locks out, present participle locking out, simple past and past participle locked out)

1. (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.

   Antonyms: let in, lock in

   Hypernym: keep out

   I've locked myself out of my room again!

2. (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.

   The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.

3. (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)

   Coordinate term: tag out

Derived terms

• lock-out (noun)
• lockout (noun)

Translations

inadvertently prevent from entering a place

• Finnish: teljetä (fi)
• German: aussperren (de)
• Italian: escludere (it), chiudersi fuori
• Swedish: låsa ute

prevent from accessing a data structure

• Italian: escludere (it)

Noun

lock out (plural lock outs)

1. Misspelling of lockout.

Translations

an event in which an employer bars employees from working

• German: Aussperrung (de) f
• Italian: serrata (it) f
• Swedish: lockout (sv) c

See also

• lock in