facelock

noun

Etymology

From face + lock.

  1. inherited from *lūkaną
  2. inherited from *lūkan
  3. inherited from lūcan
  4. inherited from locken
  5. derived from *lewg-
  6. inherited from *luką
  7. inherited from *lok
  8. inherited from loc
  9. inherited from lok
  10. compounded as facelock — “face + lock

Definitions

  1. A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.

    • He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.
    • I stepped to the side like the world's worst matador and grabbed him in a front facelock. It was the only shoot hold I knew, one that harkened back to my days bouncing at Malarkey's in Calgary.
  2. A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the…

    A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.

    • This contrast can be used as the basis for a personalised ‘facelock’, in which authentication succeeds or fails based on image-invariant recognition of faces that are familiar to the account holder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for facelock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA