unlock
Verb
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Verb
unlock (unlocks, present participle unlocking; past and past participle unlocked)
- (transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- I unlocked the door and walked in.
- (transitive) To obtain access to something.
- I unlocked the dictionary article so it could be edited.
- This computer game is shareware, but you can pay for a code to unlock the full version.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge.
- The discovery of a clue unlocked the mystery.
- (intransitive) To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:
- He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
- French: déverrouiller
- German: aufschließen, entriegeln
- Italian: aprire
- Portuguese: destrancar
- Russian: отпира́ть
- Spanish: abrir, abrir con llave, desatrancar, desbloquear
- German: freischalten, entsperren
- Portuguese: desbloquear, destravar
- Spanish: desbloquear
unlock (plural unlocks)
- The act of unlocking something.
- 1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons (page 38)
- Unlike modern, automated prisons, each cell here was locked and unlocked manually with a large skeleton key. The first duty was to get a proper head count of each inmate, insuring each was alive. Once done, an unlock was conducted.
- 2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference
- The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.
- 1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons (page 38)
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