There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

The lock insures that the points are thrown all the way with no chance that a wheel flange will snag on a partly thrown point.

`` Come on, let's hurry down before they lock up for the day ''.

Each tip of the " Y " of an antibody contains a paratope ( a structure analogous to a lock ) that is specific for one particular epitope ( similarly analogous to a key ) on an antigen, allowing these two structures to bind together with precision.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

Toe-clips and toestraps and clipless pedals help keep the foot locked in the proper position on the pedals, and enable the cyclist to pull as well as push the pedals — although not without their hazards, e. g. may lock foot in when needed to prevent a fall.

Between 2004 and 2006, after making several public appearances clearly intoxicated ( namely on the Late Show with David Letterman and the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson ) and suffering drug-related arrests and probation violations, Love was sentenced to six months in lock down rehab due to struggles with various prescription drugs and cocaine.

Some of the plates have lugs on their inner diameters locking them to the engine crankshaft, while the other plates have lugs on their outer diameters that lock them to a basket which turns the transmission input shaft.

Depending on the access operation type ( e. g., reading or writing an object ) and on the lock type, acquiring the lock may be blocked and postponed, if another transaction is holding a lock for that object.

Depending on the access operation type ( e. g., reading or writing an object ) and on the lock type, acquiring the lock may be blocked and postponed, if another transaction is holding a lock for that object.

3D Realms repackaged the game with the parental lock feature permanently enabled, although a patch available on the 3D Realms website allows the user to disable the lock and revert the game back to its original uncensored version.

Timmy Towers was a panto-style show where The Abominable No Man wanted to take over the world, kidnap kids, lock them in the Room with No TV and flush them down the toilet.

A keyboard numeric lock was available would lock the keyboard if the operator attempted to enter non-numeric data into a field defined as numeric.

During this flight, both the Earth and Mars would be too dim to lock onto.

A free-running multivibrator with a frequency of one-half to one-tenth of the reference frequency would accurately lock to the reference frequency.

In the earlier postal analogy, Alice would have to have a way to make sure that the lock on the returned packet really belongs to Bob before she removes her lock and sends the packet back.

If however the reverse waist lock is set from the back of the opponent, then the latter would face away from the athlete in the inverted position.

You now have an open nose "; If the skill was too low, the player would insert the lock pick too far, killing himself.

In " Spearhead from Space " ( 1970 ), the Third Doctor said that the lock had a metabolism detector, so that even if an unauthorised person had a key, the doors would remain locked.

What would be different character classes in a game like D & D were covered by different talents instead ; for example the thief talent would allow a player to roll against their dexterity to pick a pocket or open a lock.

Many African Americans, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line to break the strike ; thus adding a racially charged tone to the conflict.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz lived with Tracy during the production of Test Pilot, and recounted that the actor would lock himself in his bedroom " working extremely hard " each night.

Later, Matt's mentor in the Patrol makes him understand that if such an unlikely dilemma should arise, his commanding officer would lock him in his room rather than expect him to participate in the attack.

Upon the introduction of the Subaru Legacy in 1989, Subaru networked the four channel anti-lock brake function with the all wheel drive system so that if the car detected any wheel beginning to lock up, the variable assist all wheel drive system installed on vehicles with the automatic transmission would engage to ensure all wheels were actively gripping while the anti-lock system was attempting to stop the car.

These included the ability to lock a process ( called a task under RSX ) into memory as part of system boot up and to assign a process a higher priority so that it would execute before any processes with a lower priority.

If no key chip was present or if the key chip did not match the lock inside the console, the game would not work.

The original plans called for the dam to employ a unique method for moving ships ; the ships would move into locks located at the lower and upper ends of the dam and then cranes with cables would move the ships from one lock to the next.

The historian J. Evetts Haley ran for governor in 1956 with a threat that if elected he would " lock up " Parr.

TVA spent two decades trying to fix a leakage problem that had plagued Hales Bar since its construction, but after continued leakage, and after it was determined that expanding the dam's navigation lock would be too expensive, TVA decided to replace the dam by building Nickajack Dam 6 miles ( 9. 7 km ) downstream in 1968, flooding the Nickajack Cave.

A novel safety feature was the introduction of a third locking lug present at the rear of the bolt that normally did not lock the bolt, since it would introduce asymmetrical locking forces.

From Burgh Ferry, boats would use a widened Oulton Dyke to reach Oulton Broad, and a new sea lock would be constructed to link the broad to Lake Lothing.

According to GOF their campaign objective is " To generate public awareness of the dangers of not having a gun ready for protection and to encourage gun owners not to lock up their best means of self-defense.

I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.

No warden or guard to touch lock, key or doorknob except when accompanied by a prisoners' committee with powers of veto.

I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.

A turnout may have two levers, one to actually move the switch points, the other to lock the points.

Each diagram is accompanied by a `` dog chart '', a list of the levers that show which other levers any particular lever will lock if pulled.

Note, 6 and 8 lock levers don't require holes for contacts.

As an anchor for the spring lock, insert a Af bar in the lower left corner of the frame as shown in Fig. 7.

The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.

Each teacher has in his classroom a metal file, equipped with a lock, which is used to store cumulative record folders.

But because teeth sometimes may drift back to their original position, a retaining appliance is used to lock them in place.

He inserted the car key in the lock.

He rose stiffly, forcing his knees to lock.

Wants to look up something in the newspaper files, so don't lock him in here ''.

He thought it must be some damn janitor or cleaning woman puttering around, figuring that Hirey had gone off and forgotten to turn off everything and lock up.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

There was no lock because Herman didn't allow a lock.

The Alabama River has three lock and dams between Montgomery and the Mobile River.

Each antibody binds to a specific antigen by way of an interaction similar to the fit between a lock and a key.

Using the " lock and key " metaphor, the antigen itself can be seen as a string of keys-any epitope being a " key "-each of which can match a different lock.