Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To secure with an airlock.

  2. (transitive)To dispose of through an airlock.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To firewall, to maintain an ethical wall.

Examples

21 sentences

  1. Throw our prisoner out the airlock.

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  2. Karl made it to the airlock.

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  3. Damiano went back to the airlock.

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  4. Damiano has to open the airlock.

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  5. Bruno tried to open the airlock manually.

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Origin

From air + lock.

From air + lock.

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Forms

airlocks, airlocking, airlocked, airlocked
Base formairlock · to airlock
3rd person singularairlocks
Present participleairlocking
Past simpleairlocked
Past participleairlocked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyairlock
he, she, itairlocks

Past simpleLesson

all personsairlocked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave airlocked
he, she, ithas airlocked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill airlock

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
airliftairlineB1airlinerairmailairmanairplaneA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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