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locate — Everyday, meaning 1: To find exactly where something or someone is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put or build something in a certain place.↗ e.g. The school is located near the river.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, mostly) To move to and settle in a place.↗ Example: Locate the point (2, 5) on the grid.↗ · Can you locate Ireland on the map?↗ · The rescuers located the lost hikers by morning.↗ · Our classroom is located on the second floor.↗ · Locate the nearest fire exit before the play starts.↗ · Use the index to locate the page about frogs.↗ · The phone app helped us locate the lost dog.↗ · The bakery is located next to the library.↗

located — Everyday, meaning 1: If something is located in a place, it is there; that is where it is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Located (past of locate) means found the exact position of something.↗ Example: The school is located next to the park.↗ · The toilets are located on the ground floor.↗ · The rescue team located the lost hikers.↗ · Paris is located on the river Seine.↗ · The point is located at (3, 5) on the grid.↗ · The shop is conveniently located near the station.↗ · We finally located the remote under the sofa.↗

location — Everyday, meaning 1: A place or position where something is or happens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The place where a film is made away from a studio: «filmed on location».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The position of something found by a map, a GPS or a phone.↗ Example: Mark the location of the school on the map.↗ · The treasure's location was a secret.↗ · In an emergency, tell them your exact location.↗ · Don't share your location with strangers online.↗ · The film was shot on location in New Zealand.↗ · This café is in a great location by the beach.↗ · The GPS shows our location as a blue dot.↗

loch — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scotland) A lake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland) A long, narrow arm of the sea that reaches into the land, called a sea loch.↗ Example: We went kayaking on the loch.↗ · Loch Ness is a very deep loch in Scotland.↗ · The mountains were reflected in the still loch.↗ · Some people believe a monster lives in the loch.↗ · A sea loch is open to the ocean at one end.↗ · We camped beside a loch in the Highlands.↗ · The loch was freezing cold.↗ · Ducks swam across the loch.↗ · The king's daughter betook herself to the bank of the loch.↗

lock — Everyday, meaning 1: A lock is a device on a door, box or bike that keeps it closed so it can only be opened with a key, code or card.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To lock is to close something with a lock.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A lock of hair is a small bunch of hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A lock on a canal is a section with gates where boats are raised or lowered.↗ Example: Lock the door when you go out.↗ · My bike lock has a four-number code.↗ · I got locked out of the house.↗ · The medicines are kept under lock and key.↗ · She cut a lock of the baby's hair.↗ · The boat went through the canal lock.↗ · Lock your tablet with a password.↗ · Is the gate locked?↗ · The key turned easily in the lock.↗ · His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled, and black as a raven.↗ (Writings SNG.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.↗ (Prophets EZK.44.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.23, JPS 1917)↗

lockbox — Everyday, meaning 1: A small box with a lock for keeping money, papers or valuables safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small locked box, often on a door or wall, that holds a key so that visitors or workers can get in with a code.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, business) A special bank service where payments are sent to a secure address.↗ Example: The holiday house key was in a lockbox by the door.↗ · Mum gave us the code for the lockbox.↗ · Grandpa keeps his medals in a lockbox.↗ · Don't tell anyone the lockbox code.↗ · The money from the cake sale went into a lockbox.↗ · The nurse used the lockbox to let herself in.↗ · My lockbox has a little brass key.↗ · The lockbox was bolted to the wall.↗

lockdown — Everyday, meaning 1: A lockdown is a time when people must stay at home and many places close, to stop a disease spreading.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A lockdown is a safety drill or emergency when everyone in a building, like a school, stays inside with doors locked because of danger outside.↗ Example: During lockdown we had lessons on the computer.↗ · The city went into lockdown to stop the virus.↗ · We practised a lockdown drill at school.↗ · In a lockdown, stay quiet and listen to your teacher.↗ · The shops were closed during the lockdown.↗ · I baked bread with Dad in lockdown.↗ · The school was in lockdown until the police said it was safe.↗ · Lockdown was hard because we missed our friends.↗

locker — Everyday, meaning 1: A locker is a small cupboard with a door and a lock, at school, in a gym or at a pool, where you keep your things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A locker room is a room where people change clothes before and after sport.↗ Example: The hall has 4 rows of 25 lockers.↗ · Each locker holds 3 books.↗ · Locker 17 is open.↗ · How many lockers in all?↗ · I keep my gym bag in my locker.↗ · She forgot the code for her locker.↗ · Put your shoes in a locker before you swim.↗ · The team met in the locker room after the game.↗ · Do not share your locker combination.↗

locket — Everyday, meaning 1: A small piece of jewellery that opens like a tiny box, hung on a chain round the neck, holding a photo, a lock of hair or a keepsake.↗ Example: Gran gave me a silver locket with Mum's photo inside.↗ · She opened the locket to show a lock of baby hair.↗ · The orphan was recognised by the locket round her neck.↗ · A heart-shaped locket hung on a thin chain.↗ · The detective found a broken locket on the floor.↗ · He wore his father's locket for luck.↗

lockjaw — Everyday, meaning 1: An old everyday name for tetanus, a serious illness caused by germs getting into a wound, which makes muscles go stiff.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tight cramp of the jaw muscles so that the mouth will not open properly.↗ Example: Tetanus is also called lockjaw.↗ · The nurse gave me a jab to protect me from lockjaw.↗ · Lockjaw makes the jaw muscles go stiff.↗ · Clean any cut from a rusty nail and tell an adult.↗ · In the old days many farmers caught lockjaw.↗ · Grandad said, «Mind that nail or you'll get lockjaw!»↗ · Vaccines have made lockjaw rare in many countries.↗

loco — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Latin for "in the place" or "position" (as in "in the second place").↗ Example: Moses auditoribus in secundo divinse veritatis loco, hoc est in ratione quoe est posterior authoritate, habitus."↗ Parisiis, 1552.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Moses auditoribus in secundo divinæ veritatis loco, hoc est in ratione quœ est posterior authoritate, habitus."↗ Parisiis, 1552.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

locomotion — Everyday, meaning 1: Locomotion is the ability to move from one place to another, or the way an animal or person moves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) Locomotion is also the name of one of the first steam railway engines (Locomotion No. 1, 1825).↗ Example: Fish use their fins for locomotion.↗ · Snakes have a special kind of locomotion without legs.↗ · Walking on two legs is human locomotion.↗ · Muscles and bones work together for locomotion.↗ · In PE we practised different locomotion skills, like skipping and hopping.↗ · Locomotion No. 1 pulled the first public steam train.↗ · He {150} also found fault with a house built by Athene because, being unprovided with the means of locomotion, it could never be removed from an unhealthy locality.↗

locomotive — Everyday, meaning 1: A railway engine that pulls a train.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, formal) To do with movement from place to place; «locomotion» is how animals move.↗ Example: The steam locomotive puffed out clouds of smoke.↗ · Stephenson's Rocket was an early locomotive.↗ · The locomotive pulled twenty wagons of coal.↗ · An electric locomotive takes power from wires above the track.↗ · We visited a museum full of old locomotives.↗ · Birds and fish have different kinds of locomotion.↗ · The locomotive's driver blew the whistle.↗

locum — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Latin for "place"; a "locum" is a person who stands in for another for a time.↗

locust — Everyday, meaning 1: A large kind of grasshopper that sometimes gathers in huge swarms that fly far and eat all the crops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) Locusts are one of the plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus; John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, informal) Sometimes used for a cicada, a loud buzzing insect.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A kind of tree (the locust tree or carob).↗ Example: A swarm of locusts can eat a whole field in one day.↗ · Locusts are a kind of grasshopper.↗ · In the Bible, God sent locusts to cover the land of Egypt.↗ · John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey.↗ · Farmers in East Africa feared the locust swarms.↗ · Some people around the world eat roasted locusts.↗ · A BOY was hunting for locusts.↗ · All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.↗ (Torah DEU.28.42, JPS 1917)↗ · Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; (Torah EXO.10.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.↗ (Torah DEU.28.38, JPS 1917)↗ · Hast thou made him to leap as a locust?↗ (Writings JOB.39.20, JPS 1917)↗ · He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number, (Writings PSA.105.34, JPS 1917)↗ · He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.↗ (Writings PSA.78.46, JPS 1917)↗

lodge — Everyday, meaning 1: A small house or cabin in the country, mountains or a park, used for holidays, hunting or skiing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small house at the gate of a big estate, or a porter's room at a school or college.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To become stuck firmly somewhere (a bone lodged in its throat).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To stay in someone's house and pay rent.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb, formal) To officially make a complaint or request (lodge a complaint).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (noun) A beaver's home.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: A lodge can also be a tent or hut where some Native American peoples live.↗ Example: We stayed in a wooden lodge in the mountains.↗ · Beavers build a lodge in the river.↗ · A fish bone was lodged in his throat.↗ · The ball lodged in the gutter.↗ · My parents lodged a complaint about the noise (formal).↗ · As a student, Gran lodged with a family in the city.↗ · The ski lodge had a big fire.↗ · Then it was that the people, terror-stricken, ran screaming into their lodges.↗ · Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?'↗ (Torah GEN.24.23, JPS 1917)↗ · So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.↗ (Torah GEN.32.21, JPS 1917)↗ · She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee?↗ (Prophets JER.4.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness.↗ (Writings PSA.55.8, JPS 1917)↗ · She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.21, JPS 1917)↗

lodger — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who pays to live in a room in someone else's house, often sharing the kitchen and bathroom with the family.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) Anyone staying for a time in a place.↗ Example: We have a lodger who lives in the spare room.↗ · The lodger pays rent every week.↗ · Mrs Brown took in a lodger after her children left home.↗ · Our lodger is a student from Canada.↗ · The lodger shares our kitchen.↗ · In the story, the strange lodger never came out of his room.↗ · My aunt was a lodger when she first moved to London.↗ · As soon as her work was over the old woman came and sat down with her lodgers.↗

lodging — Everyday, meaning 1: A place to stay for a short time, such as a room in someone's house or an inn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lodgings (UK): a rented room or rooms in a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The -ing form of «lodge»: staying somewhere as a paying guest, or getting stuck somewhere (a bone lodging in the throat).↗ Example: The travellers paid for food and lodging at the inn.↗ · Lodging in the city is very expensive.↗ · He lived in lodgings near the university.↗ · Lodging costs $40 a night, so 3 nights cost $120.↗ · They found cheap lodging by the beach.↗ · The student is lodging with an old couple.↗ · A fish bone was lodging in her throat, so they went to the doctor.↗ · He asked them for a night's lodging.↗ · And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.↗ (Torah EXO.4.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.↗ (Torah GEN.42.27, JPS 1917)↗ · They are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled.↗ (Prophets ISA.10.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!↗ (Prophets JER.9.1, JPS 1917)↗