Meaning

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

    I've locked myself out of my room again!

    aussperren

  2. 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)

  4. (intransitive, transitive)(colloquial, sometimes humorous) To be unable to concentrate.

    Bro, I am totally locked out on this assignment.

More definitions
  • prevent employees from working during a strike

Examples

79 sentences
  1. I locked myself out.

    У мене захлопнулися двері. — deniko

    ruЯ запер дверь, оставив ключи внутри. — Hellerick

    deIch sperrte mich selbst aus. — Yorwba

  2. I'm locked out of my room.

  3. I'm locked out of my car.

  4. We're locked out of our room.

  5. Did you get locked out again?

    deHast du dich wieder ausgesperrt? — Rantanplan

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
inadvertently prevent from entering a place:

Forms

locks out, locking out, locked out, locked out
Base formlock out · to lock out
3rd person singularlocks out
Present participlelocking out
Past simplelocked out
Past participlelocked out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylock out
he, she, itlocks out

Past simpleLesson

all personslocked out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave locked out
he, she, ithas locked out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lock out

Phrasal verbs

10 phrasal verbs

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedlockout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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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