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Signifies that a tracking or target-seeking system is continuously and automatically tracking a target in one or more coordinates (e.g., range, bearing, elevation).
Translations ? lock on vi (spaceship etc) → gekoppelt werden (to mit); the radio automatically locks onto a channel → das Radio hat automatische Feineinstellung; the missile locks onto its target → das Geschoss richtet sich auf das Ziel vt sep radio, scanner → einstellen (→ to auf +acc); with a padlock he locked the extra piece on → er befestigte das zusätzliche Stück mit einem Anhängeschloss How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is, I suppose, Boulter's not even excepted, the busiest lock on the river. How is it that you let Tait's people put us off with a defective lock on the cabin door? This the white-haired man told me was to be my apartment; and the inner door, which "for fear of accidents," he said, he would lock on the other side, was my limit inward. |
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