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Locking vs Rocking - What's the difference?

locking | rocking |

As verbs the difference between locking and rocking

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

As nouns the difference between locking and rocking

is that locking is the act by which something is locked while rocking is the motion of something that rocks.

As an adjective rocking is

excellent; great.

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

    rocking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) excellent; great

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that rocks.
  • * 1823 , John Wesley, ?Charles Bonnet, ?Louis Dutens, A survey of the wisdom of God in the creation (page 181)
    • Every part of a tree will not do for this purpose, as some branches may not be sufficiently forked; others may not be sufficiently strong; and others may be too much exposed to the rockings of the wind.

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