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Definition: Padlock |
PadlockNoun1. A detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut. Verb1. Fasten with a padlock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "padlock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A removable lock with a shackle that can be passed through a staple or link and then secured. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
Prison | Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade. |
Taciturnity | Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Padlock |
| English words defined with "padlock": hasp ♦ Infibulation ♦ Jail lock ♦ Padlocked, Padlocking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "padlock": break-in tools ♦ forcible entry tools ♦ SH-T-NG THROUGH THE TEETH, SPANISH PADLOCK ♦ Walton Bridle. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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| "Padlock" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "A lock. any questions?." | "Wedding chain 1" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "Nanjing (China). As part of a wedding ceremony couples padlock two hearts together on a chain. On the hearts there is an image of a Pheonix (female) and Dragon (male). I think the brand name of the padlocks, HOUSE, is a beautiful touch." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Its double tires were new, and a brass padlock stood straight out from the hasp on the big black doors |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Padlock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "Padlock" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.15% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "padlock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndryj (lock up, mew), dry (lock). (various references) | |
Arabic | قفل (block out, close, confine, enclose, fastener, inclose, latch, lock, obstruct, pen, plug, shut, shut down, shut out, shutter, turn off), قلق بالقفل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | катинар. (various references) | |
Czech | zavřít visacím zámkem, visací zámek. (various references) | |
Danish | haengelaas. (various references) | |
Dutch | hangslot. (various references) | |
Farsi | قفل کردن (Latch, Lock), قفل (Lock), انسداد (Bloc, Block, Blockade, Blockage, Choke, Let, Obstruction, Occlusion, Stockade), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references) | |
Finnish | riippulukko, munalukko, etulukko, etulasti. (various references) | |
French | cadenas. (various references) | |
German | vorhängeschloss. (various references) | |
Greek | λουκέτο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנעול (bar, bolt, lock), קופל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lakat (lock). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gembok. (various references) | |
Italian | lucchetto (lock). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錠 (lock), 蝦錠 , 海老錠 , 南京錠 (hasp). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なんきんじょう (hasp), じょう (10^28, aboard a ship or vehicle, as a matter of, besides, best, cane, company officer, emotion, feelings, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, governmental, high class, imperial, jailer, lock, old man, passion, presenting, rank, shape, showing, superior quality, -tatami mats, ten octillion, ten thousand quadrillion, top, uselessness, whipping rod, young woman), えびじょう. (various references) | |
Manx | glass essynagh, glass croghee, cur glass essynagh er. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hengelås. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adlockpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cadeado (lock). (various references) | |
Romanian | lacãt (bolt, lock, locksmith), închide cu un lacãt. (various references) | |
Russian | висячий замок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | katanac. (various references) | |
Spanish | candado. (various references) | |
Swedish | hänglås. (various references) | |
Turkish | asma kilit takmak, asma kilit. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | висячий замок, замиката на висячий замок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái khoá móc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "padlock": padlocked, padlocking, padlocks. (additional references) | |
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"Padlock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mallock, Padloc, padouk, Palaczky, palock, Paslick, Pavlicek, Pavlick, Pawlicki, pedlock, Pidcock, Podolski, polock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "padlock" (pronounced pa"dlÄ'k) |
| 4 | -d l Ä' k | deadlock, gridlock, wedlock. |
| 3 | -l Ä' k | flintlock, hammerlock, Havelock, hemlock, matchlock, oarlock, roadblock, Sherlock, Shylock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-k-l-o-p" | |
-2 letters: acold, cloak, copal, plack, polka. | |
-3 letters: apod, calk, calo, capo, clad, clap, clod, clop, coal, coda, cola, cold, dock, dopa, kola, lack, load, loca, lock, opal, pack, plod, pock. | |
-4 letters: ado, alp, cad, cap, cod, col, cop, dak, dal, dap, doc, dol, koa, kop, lac, lad, lap, lop, oak, oca, oka, old, pac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-k-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: padlocks. | |
+2 letters: padlocked. | |
+3 letters: padlocking. | |
+4 letters: blacktopped. | |
+5 letters: kaleidoscope, postcardlike. | |
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