UNLOCKED

unbarred, unbolted, unlatched, unlocked, unsecured

(adjective) not firmly fastened or secured; “an unbarred door”; “went through the unlatched gate into the street”; “an unlocked room”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

unlocked (not comparable)

Not secured or protected by a lock.

(mobile telephony, of a phone) Not bound to any particular carrier.

Antonym: locked

Verb

unlocked

simple past tense and past participle of unlock

Source: Wiktionary


UNLOCK

Un*lock", v. t. Etym: [Cf. AS. unl. See 1st Un-, and Lock, v. t.]

1. To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

2. To open, in general; to lay open; to undo. Unlock your springs, and open all your shades. Pope. [Lord] unlock the spell of sin. J. H. Newman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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