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lock·er

 (lŏk′ər)
n.
1. One that locks: a locker of windows and doors.
2. A small, usually metal compartment that can be locked, especially one at a gymnasium or public place for the safekeeping of clothing and valuables.
3. A flat trunk for storage.
4. A heavily insulated refrigerated cabinet, compartment, or room for storing frozen foods.

locker

(ˈlɒkə)
n
1.
a. a small compartment or drawer that may be locked, as one of several in a gymnasium, etc, for clothes and valuables
b. (as modifier): a locker room.
2. a person or thing that locks
3. US and Canadian a refrigerated compartment for keeping frozen foods, esp one rented in an establishment

lock•er

(ˈlɒk ər)

n.
1. a chest, compartment, or closet in which clothing and valuables may be locked for safekeeping.
2. a large, typically room-size compartment, as in a cold-storage plant, for keeping frozen foods.
3. a person or thing that locks.
[1375–1425]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.locker - a storage compartment for clothes and valuableslocker - a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
storage locker, cabinet
compartment - a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
glory hole, lazaretto - a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
locker room - a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions
2.locker - a fastener that locks or closes
fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
3.locker - a trunk for storing personal possessionslocker - a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)
footlocker
trunk - luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

locker

noun safe, cabinet, cupboard, compartment The stolen items were found in his locker at work.
Translations
خَزَانَةٌخِزانَه لِحِفْظ الأمْتِعَه
skříňkauzamykatelná skříňka
skab
lukollinen kaappi
ormarić pod ključem
skápur
ロッカー
로커
omarica s ključavnico
förvaringsskåp
ตู้
eşya dolabıkilitli dolap
tủ có khóa

locker

[ˈlɒkəʳ]
A. N → cajón m con llave; (for left luggage) → casillero m (de consigna), consigna f automática (US) → cámara f de frío; [of gymnasium] → taquilla f
B. CPD locker room N → vestuario m

locker

[ˈlɒkər] n → casier m left-luggage lockerlocker room n → vestiaire m

locker

n → Schließfach nt; (Naut, Mil) → Spind m

locker

[ˈlɒkəʳ] n → armadietto (Naut) → gavone m

lock1

(lok) noun
1. a mechanism for fastening doors etc. He put the key in the lock.
2. a closed part of a canal for raising or lowering boats to a higher or lower part of the canal.
3. the part of a gun by which it is fired.
4. a tight hold (in wrestling etc).
verb
to fasten or become fastened with a lock. She locked the drawer; This door doesn't lock.
ˈlocker noun
a small cupboard, especially for sports equipment.
ˈlocket (-kit) noun
a little ornamental case hung round the neck. a gold locket containing a piece of his hair.
ˈlocksmith noun
a person who makes and mends locks.
lock in
to prevent from getting out of a building etc by using a lock. She found she was locked in, and had to climb out of the window.
lock out
to prevent from getting into a building etc by using a lock. Don't lock yourself out (of the house) by forgetting to take your key with you.
lock up
1. to confine or prevent from leaving or being taken away by using a lock. to lock up a prisoner / one's jewellery.
2. to lock whatever should be locked. He locked up and left the shop about 5.30 p.m.

locker

→ خَزَانَةٌ uzamykatelná skříňka skab Schließfach φοριαμός taquilla lukollinen kaappi casier ormarić pod ključem armadietto ロッカー 로커 kluisje låsbart skap schowek armário com chave запирающийся шкафчик förvaringsskåp ตู้ kilitli dolap tủ có khóa 锁柜
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It was all fitted with lockers from top to bottom, so as to stow away the officers' belongings and a part of the ship's stores; there was a second store-room underneath, which you entered by a hatchway in the middle of the deck; indeed, all the best of the meat and drink and the whole of the powder were collected in this place; and all the firearms, except the two pieces of brass ordnance, were set in a rack in the aftermost wall of the round-house.
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Whether owing to the almost omniscient look-outs at the mast-heads of the whale-ships, now penetrating even through Behring's straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.
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Those in the cabin broke into the food lockers, and those above scrambled down and joined them in a feast on our crackers and canned goods.
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Hollis, stripped to the waist, lay stretched out on the lockers, with closed eyes and motionless like a despoiled corpse; at his head Jackson twanged the guitar, and gasped out in sighs a mournful dirge about hopeless love and eyes like stars.
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There were some hooks in the beams of the ceiling, the use of which I did not divine then; and some lockers and boxes and conveniences of that sort, which served for seats and eked out the chairs.
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His sitting-room was like the admiral's cabin, his bath-room was like a dairy, his sleeping-chamber, fitted all about with lockers and drawers, was like a seedsman's shop; and his nicely-balanced cot just stirred in the midst, as if it breathed.
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MY BELOVED MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH,--So eager am I to do something that will please and divert you in return for your care, for your ceaseless efforts on my behalf--in short, for your love for me-- that I have decided to beguile a leisure hour for you by delving into my locker, and extracting thence the manuscript which I send you herewith.
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Then he got up, paddled about, rearranged the ballast bags on the floor, watched the clouds for a time, and turned over the maps on the locker.
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The locker was a broad one; Launce was able to seat himself partially behind her.
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It bad two berths in it, a dismal dead-light, a sink with a washbowl in it, and a long, sumptuously cushioned locker, which was to do service as a sofa--partly-- and partly as a hiding place for our things.
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And I did not let him off a single item; mate's room, pantry, storerooms, the very sail locker which was also under the poop--he had to look into them all.
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For aught I know he has gone to sea once more on his chest, and may land to bother some people on the other side of the world; though it's a thousand pities," added he, "if he has gone to Davy Jones's[1] locker, that he had not left his own locker[2] behind him.
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