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Lacking vs Locking - What's the difference?

lacking | locking |

As verbs the difference between lacking and locking

is that lacking is present participle of lang=en while locking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between lacking and locking

is that lacking is the absence of something; a lack while locking is the act by which something is locked.

lacking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The absence of something; a lack.
  • * Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery
  • Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings , did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.

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    locking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is locked.
  • * 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
  • On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...
  • (computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
  • Derived terms

    * double-checked locking