Sentence examples for fit a lock from inspiring English sources

J: The process of filing down a key to fit a lock is fairly easy and straightforward (pending you can disassemble the lock, which we had done).

Buy & fit a lock if possible.

This allows it to attach itself to an appropriate site on its target organelle, rather as a key fits a lock.Dr Zewail's research involves, in effect, taking high-speed snapshots of chemical reactions.

One woman told me how she fitted a lock to a bedroom door, and she sheltered with her children in a single room every night, afraid of what her husband might do while they slept.

You fit this position like a key fits a lock.

For generations, biochemistry students have learned that molecules called ligands bind to a receptor or an enzyme like a key fits a lock.

The theory is 'clean': one makes an antibody against, say a purified protein and the antibody is supposed to bind to the antigen like a key fits a lock.

In summary, rather that representing the classical view of one antibody binding to a protein like a key fits a lock, these, and many other examples we have not cited, lead us to the conclusion that the 'key' may fit many types of 'locks' and the lock can fit an array of different keys.

For insurance purposes I had to change the door and fit a specific lock, but the rest of the work has been cosmetic.

A lock switch on the aluminum casing allows for easy access to the internals, as well as fitting a security lock with its own cable, and components are secured with standard screws.

Scorpion toxins have evolved to fit like a lock and key into the pore entryway of potassium channels, and disrupt ion conduction through presentation of a lysine amino group that competes with potassium in the selectivity filter.