unlock

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  1. transitive verb To undo (a lock) by turning a key or corresponding part.
  2. transitive verb To undo the lock of.
  3. transitive verb To give access to; open.
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  • The Guild taught lingsters in a few years what had taken centuries to unlock, the secrets of these scripts, All but the main one: how they had come into being in the first place. —  EBSCOhost
  • In any case, the obvious door for the killer to unlock was the one in the basement and it was hard to believe that he had lacked the opportunity. —  A Mind to Murder-P D James-Dalgiesh 02
  • - On the eve of the iPhone 3G software unlock, the following text just went up on the iPhone Dev Team blog: 01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 00110110 —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • On the eve of the iPhone 3G software unlock, the following text just went up on the iPhone Dev Team blog: 01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • - On the eve of the iPhone 3G software unlock, the following text just went up on the iPhone Dev Team blog: 01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 00110110 00110001 00110000 00110110 00110000 00110001 00110111 00110100 00100000 —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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  1. from Middle English unlouken, onlouken (preterit unlek, past participle unloken, unloke), from Anglo-Saxon unlūcan, unlock, from un-, back, + lūcan, lock: see un- and lock.
 

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/ənˈlɑk/
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