Dream Dictionary

Lock

To see a lock in a dream means that you're coming up against an obstacle to getting what you want in a certain area of your life.

A lock in a dream can also mean a need for more emotional or mental security, or that you need to focus on personal boundaries (strengthening them, or loosening them up).

Dictionary definition

  • n. 1: a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
  • 2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl]
  • 3: a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
  • 4: enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it [syn: lock, lock chamber]
  • 5: a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key [syn: lock, ignition lock]
  • 6: any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
  • v. 1: fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence" [ant: unlock]
  • 2: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw]
  • 3: become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" [ant: unlock]
  • 4: hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock, interlock, interlace]
  • 5: become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" [syn: interlock, lock]
  • 6: hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
  • 7: place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" [syn: lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up]
  • 8: pass by means through a lock in a waterway
  • 9: build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels