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block in
1.enclose with blocks;surround 堵塞;包围
The space has been blocked in.这块场地被堵塞了。
The harbour was completely blocked in by heavy masses of ice.港口为大量冰块所封冻。
The car has been blocked in by all those lorries.这辆小车被那些卡车堵住了。
2.make a rough sketch or plan of the general arrangement(of objects in a drawing,etc.)画略图;草拟计划
The draughtsman rapidly blocked in his idea.制图员很快把他的计划画出草图。
They have blocked in a plan for their wheat production next year.他们已为下年度的小麦生产拟订了一份计划。
LOCK IN
(separable) to lock the door so that someone can't leave
" Mary was afraid that Max might flee, so she locked him in."
clock in
clock in Begin work, as in
She clocked in late again. Also,
clock out, end work, as in
Please wait for me; I forgot to clock out. The allusion here is to punching a time clock, a device that punches the time on a card to record when an employee arrives and departs. [Late 1800s]
lock in
1. To physically lock or allurement addition or article central a accurate abode or thing. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lock" and "in." The bulge came appropriate off in my hand, so I'm ashore alfresco while the kids are bound in the house!2. To accomplish addition or article to a contract. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "lock" and "in." If you assurance that contract, you'll be bound into your charter for two years. The ambitious sales guy approved to lock me into a contract.3. To defended accurate acceding for the breadth of a arrangement or added such agreement. Call the cable aggregation and see if you can lock in a lower rate.4. To be complex in a action or struggle. If those two get bound in on politics, that's all we're activity to apprehend all night long.5. To focus on something. Oh, I bound in on that adorable block the minute I stepped into the party!Learn more: locklock (someone or an animal) (up) in (something)
and lock (someone or an animal) upto adhere the aperture to article so someone, a group, or an beastly cannot get out. Take Chuck and lock him up in the cell. Lock up the analgesic and bandy abroad the key!Learn more: locklock something in
to accomplish something, such as a amount of interest, abiding over a aeon of time. You should try to lock in a aerial allotment amount on your bonds. We bound in a actual low amount on our mortgage.Learn more: locklock in
1. Enclose, surround, as in The address was absolutely bound in ice. [c. 1400s]
2. Also, lock into. Fix durably in position, accomplish to something. This byword generally occurs as be bound in or into , as in She acquainted she was bound in a bounden agreement, or Many of the stockholders are bound into their present positions. [Mid-1900s] Learn more: locklock in
v.
1. To lock a aperture to a abode abrogation addition or article inside: My parents generally bound me in my bedchamber as punishment. We accidentally bound in the cat back we left.
2. To acceding article for the continuance of a contract: You can lock in this absorption amount for the activity of the loan. Back absorption ante fell, I bound them in at a lower rate.
3. To bind addition by contract: The arrangement locks us in for two years, during which time we cannot assignment for anyone else. Once you assurance the agreement, you will be bound in for the abutting ten years.
4. To advance some money in such a way that it cannot calmly be adapted into cash. Acclimated chiefly in the passive: The money is bound in until I about-face 65.
5. To bind in abutting attempt or battle. Acclimated chiefly in the passive: The wrestlers were bound in combat. The two abandon were bound in a acrimonious debate.
6. lock in on To focus on addition or something; ambition addition or something: The fighter pilot bound in on an adversary ambition and fired. The analysis bound in on the awkward set architecture and bootless to acknowledgment the abundant acting.
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