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Mocking vs Locking - What's the difference?

mocking | locking |

As verbs the difference between mocking and locking

is that mocking is while locking is .

As nouns the difference between mocking and locking

is that mocking is action of the verb to mock while locking is the act by which something is locked.

As an adjective mocking

is derisive or contemptuous.

mocking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to mock

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • derisive or contemptuous
  • teasing or taunting

    • Derived terms

    * mockingbird * mocking thrush * mocking wren

    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