"anti-lock" meaning in English

See anti-lock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From anti- + lock. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|anti|lock}} anti- + lock Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} anti-lock (not comparable)
  1. Preventing something from becoming stuck or jammed. Especially applies to anti-lock brakes, which are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than "locking" and causing the car to skid. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antilock Derived forms: antilock brake Translations (preventing from becoming stuck or jammed): antiblocage (French), antitravamento (Portuguese), antitrava (Portuguese), antibloqueo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-anti-lock-en-adj-q2Rbtc6y

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for anti-lock meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anti",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "anti- + lock",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anti- + lock.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "anti-lock (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "antilock brake"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Preventing something from becoming stuck or jammed. Especially applies to anti-lock brakes, which are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than \"locking\" and causing the car to skid."
      ],
      "id": "en-anti-lock-en-adj-q2Rbtc6y",
      "links": [
        [
          "jammed",
          "jammed"
        ],
        [
          "brakes",
          "brakes"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "antilock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
          "word": "antiblocage"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
          "word": "antitravamento"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
          "word": "antitrava"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
          "word": "antibloqueo"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "anti-lock"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "antilock brake"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anti",
        "3": "lock"
      },
      "expansion": "anti- + lock",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anti- + lock.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "anti-lock (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Preventing something from becoming stuck or jammed. Especially applies to anti-lock brakes, which are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than \"locking\" and causing the car to skid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jammed",
          "jammed"
        ],
        [
          "brakes",
          "brakes"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "antilock"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
      "word": "antiblocage"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
      "word": "antitravamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
      "word": "antitrava"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "preventing from becoming stuck or jammed",
      "word": "antibloqueo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anti-lock"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.