The meaning of Deadlock

noun

A bar that slides into a socket to fasten a door or window.

Usage examples:

He reached through the hole in the door and slid the bolt on the inside.

verb

Fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket.

Usage examples:

All the doors were locked and bolted

verb

(of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.

Usage examples:

The horses shied and bolted

verb

Intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped).

Usage examples:

She threw the bottle into the air and caught it again

noun

An act of catching something, typically a ball.

Usage examples:

I saw myself fumbling easy catches and looking clumsy.

verb

Take hold of so as to seize or stop the motion of

noun

The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.

Usage examples:

The cessation of hostilities

noun

The ending of a condition or the stopping of an activity

Usage examples:

[ c usually sing ] a cessation of violence

noun

The fact of something ending or stopping

Usage examples:

The company has now stopped trading and has announced the cessation of its business.

noun

A position in which a player's king is directly attacked by an opponent's piece or pawn and has no possible move to escape the check. the attacking player thus wins the game.

Usage examples:

To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a ch…

verb

Put into checkmate.

Usage examples:

I had one middle-aged student who stubbornly refused to castle, saying that his king would be trapp…

noun

A winning position in chess in which you have put the other player's king under a direct attack from which it cannot escape

Usage examples:

My dad can always checkmate me within 20 moves., the goal is to checkmate an opponent's king., the …

noun

A situation in which two or more competitors in a race are exactly level.

Usage examples:

Competition is always fierce, with a dead heat in one of the early races

verb

Run or finish a race exactly level.

Usage examples:

He dead-heated at aintree

noun

A race in which two or more competitors finish at exactly the same time

Usage examples:

The two horses finished in a dead heat., fig. opinion pollsters call the congressional race a dead …

verb

Produce (a picture or diagram) by making lines and marks on paper with a pencil, pen, etc.

Usage examples:

He drew a map

noun

An act of selecting names randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

Usage examples:

The draw has been made for this year's tournament

verb

Cause to move by pulling

noun

A device that closes or secures something.

Usage examples:

The fasteners that attach the panel to the wall had corroded

noun

A button or other device for joining together the separate parts of something, esp. clothes

noun

A device that closes or secures something.

Usage examples:

A fly-front fastening

verb

Close or do up securely.

Usage examples:

The tunic was fastened with a row of gilt buttons

noun

A device on a window, door, box, etc. for keeping it closed

verb

Bring or come to an abrupt stop.

Usage examples:

There is growing pressure to halt the bloodshed

noun

A suspension of movement or activity, typically a temporary one.

Usage examples:

A halt in production

adjective

(of a person) having a physical disability.

Usage examples:

If a man were halt or hunch'd

noun

A situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock.

Usage examples:

The current political impasse

noun

A point in a process at which further progress is blocked, esp. by disagreement

Usage examples:

We have reached an impasse in the negotiations -- neither side will budge.

noun

A situation in which further development is impossible

Usage examples:

Be at/remain at an impasse with negotiations at an impasse, analysts warn the uncertainty may harm …

noun

A metal bar with a catch and lever used for fastening a door or gate.

Usage examples:

Lifting the latch, she pushed the gate open

verb

Fasten (a door or gate) with a latch.

Usage examples:

She latched the door carefully

noun

A fastening device for a door or gate

Usage examples:

[ t ] make sure the cabinet door is latched so the cat can’t get in.

noun

A mechanism for keeping a door, window, lid, or container fastened, typically operated by a key.

Usage examples:

The key turned firmly in the lock

verb

Fasten or secure (something) with a lock.

Usage examples:

She closed and locked her desk

noun

A piece of a person's hair that coils or hangs together.

Usage examples:

She pushed back a lock of hair

noun

A latch on a door or window.

Usage examples:

She quietly lifted the sneck and slipped out

verb

Close or fasten (a door or window) with a latch.

Usage examples:

Sneck the door and hide under the bed when they come

noun

A lock, latch, or fastening for a door or window.

Usage examples:

No, he entered my home, and once you're in the snib locks, and bad things do happen.

verb

Bolt, fasten, or lock (a door).

Usage examples:

He snibbed the door and leaned against it, panting

noun

A situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The war had again reached stalemate

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

noun

A situation in which nothing can change or no action can be taken

Usage examples:

[ u ] stalemate in congress over education reform has made voters angry., [ c ] the arrival of fres…

noun

A situation in which neither side has won a competition or argument, or an occasion when someone prevents officials from acting, usually by threatening violence

Usage examples:

The battle of wills between teacher and student was a standoff., she locked herself in the house, b…

noun

A situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible

Usage examples:

Standoff between sb and sb the standoff between potential buyers and sellers has effects throughout…

noun

A situation or condition in which there is no movement or activity at all.

Usage examples:

The traffic came to a standstill

noun

A condition in which all movement or activity has stopped

Usage examples:

Bad weather brought construction to a standstill., the truck came to a standstill in the muddy field.

noun

A situation in which all movement or activity has stopped

Usage examples:

Be at a standstill labour negotiations are almost at a standstill., bring sth to a standstill the b…

verb

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.

Usage examples:

His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun

noun

A cessation of movement or operation.

Usage examples:

All business came to a stop

verb

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

noun

An instance of movement, activity, or supply stopping or being stopped.

Usage examples:

A power stoppage

verb

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord.

Usage examples:

They tied max to a chair

noun

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something.

Usage examples:

He tightened the tie of his robe

verb

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord