locking
/lˈɑkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and turn them again. […] [I]t was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English locking From lock + -ing.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
central door locking
central locking
double-checked locking
locking differential
locking frame
locking room
mode locking
mutual tidal locking