Množina: locked files

1. A file on which one or more of the usual types of manipulative operation cannot be performed—typically, one that cannot be altered by additions or deletions.
2. A file that cannot be deleted or moved or whose name cannot be changed.

1. When people cannot enter a room, building, or other place because the door or gate is locked, they are locked out.
2. After a business locks out workers in order to prohibit them from working, the workers are locked out.

Someone who has been put in prison is locked up.

Množina: locked volumes

On the Apple Macintosh, a volume (storage device, such as a disk) that cannot be written to. The volume can be locked either physically or through software.

1. Not subject to adjustment; fixed
2. Unable or unwilling to shift invested funds because of the tax effect of realizing capital gains
3. When people cannot leave a room, building, or other place because the door or gate is locked, they are locked in.
4. After you make an interest rate, price, time slot, and so on, definite so that it will not change in the future, it is locked in.

Množina: locked-in syndromes

Rare condition caused by damage to the upper brainstem that leaves the patient conscious but paralyzed and mute; his or her only means of communication is by blinking. There are various causes, including stroke, brain tumor and encephalitis.