0 past simple and past participle of unlock --
1 to open something, especially a door that is locked (= fastened with a lock) using a key or an electronic device: --
One of poetry's functions is to unlock the imagination.
A chemical has been discovered that may be the key to unlocking the mysteries of Parkinson's disease.
Once your phone is unlocked, you can buy and change SIM cards as you travel.
You need to know the secret PIN to unlock your mobile phone upon power up.
Since then chemists and geologists have provided interpretations based on experimentation, field surveys, and laboratory analyses and unlocked many of the mysteries of this very unusual material.
Perhaps we have unlocked the key to the kind of consensus bioethicists seek.
The command of drawing not building unlocked the status of the architect.
On several occasions, male clients attempted to enter the room through the unlocked door.
The door to the office was left unlocked by the cleaning service.
The door(s) to the office were left unlocked by the cleaning service.
Locked and unlocked positions of the fourth joint.
Thus, the energy concealed in nature is unlocked, transformed, stored up, distributed and switched about.
