11. hook the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck.
12. hook a ball describing such a path.
13. hook (in boxing) a short circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
14. hook Slang. hands or fingers.
15. (v.t.)hook to seize, fasten, or catch hold of with or as if with a hook.
16. hook to catch (fish) with a fishhook.
17. hook Slang. to steal or seize by stealth.
18. hook Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare.
19. hook (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns.
20. hook to make (a rug, cushion, etc.) by drawing loops of yarn through cloth with or as if with a hook.
21. hook to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results.
22. hook to make hook-shaped; crook.
23. (v.i.)hook to become attached or fastened by or as if by a hook.
24. hook to curve or bend like a hook.
25. hook (of a ball) to describe a hook in course.
26. hook hook up,
27. hook to fasten with a hook or hooks.
28. hook to assemble or connect, as components of a machine.
29. hook to connect to a central source, as of power or water.
30. hook Informal. to join or become associated with.
31. hook by hook or (by) crook, by any means whatsoever.
32. hook get (or give) the hook,Informal. to receive (or subject to) a dismissal.
33. hook Informal. entirely; completely.
34. hook off the hook,
35. hook released from some difficulty or obligation.
36. hook (of a telephone receiver) not resting on the cradle.
37. hook on one's own hook, independently.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME hoke, OE hōc, c. OFris, MD hōk hook, angle; akin to OHG hāko hook, ON haki)
Definition of 'Hook'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)hook a catch for locking a door
2. (noun)hook, crotchet a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
3. (noun)bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener anything that serves as an enticement
4. (noun)hook, claw a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
5. (noun)hook a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
6. (noun)hook, draw, hooking a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
7. (noun)hook a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
8. (verb)hook shot, hook a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
11. (verb)crochet, hook make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle "She sat there crocheting all day"
12. (verb)hook hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
13. (verb)hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom take by theft "Someone snitched my wallet!"
14. (verb)pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift make off with belongings of others
15. (verb)hook hit with a hook "His opponent hooked him badly"
16. (verb)hook catch with a hook "hook a fish"
17. (verb)addict, hook to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
18. (verb)hook secure with the foot "hook the ball"
19. (verb)hook, snare entice and trap "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
20. (verb)hook, solicit, accost approach with an offer of sexual favors "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
1. (noun)hook a piece of curved metal for hanging things on, catching fish on, etc. Put your coats on the hooks.
2. hook off the hook (of a telephone) with the receiver disconnected from the main part They must have left the phone off the hook.
3. hook no longer in a difficult or unpleasant situation Police let the students off the hook with just a warning.
4. (verb)hook to hang or catch sth on a hook or sth similar He hooked his jacket on a branch.
Definition of 'Hook'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Hook a piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc
2. (noun)Hook that part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns
3. (noun)Hook an implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook
4. (noun)Hook see Eccentric, and V-hook
5. (noun)Hook a snare; a trap
6. (noun)Hook a field sown two years in succession
7. (noun)Hook the projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones
8. (verb)Hook to catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout
9. (verb)Hook to seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore
10. (verb)Hook to steal
11. (verb)Hook to bend; to curve as a hook
Definitions of 'Hook'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. Hook A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later
additions or changes by a user. For example, a simple program that prints
numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version
would let a variable determine what base to use; setting the variable to 5
would make the program print numbers in base 5. The variable is a simple
hook. An even more flexible program might examine the variable and treat a
value of 16 or less as the base to use, but treat any other number as the
address of a user-supplied routine for printing a number. This is a
hairy but powerful hook; one can then write a
routine to print numbers as Roman numerals, say, or as Hebrew characters,
and plug it into the program through the hook. Often the difference
between a good program and a superb one is that the latter has useful hooks
in judiciously chosen places. Both may do the original job about equally
well, but the one with the hooks is muchmore flexible for future expansion
of capabilities (EMACS, for example, is
all hooks). The termuser
exit is synonymous but much more formal and less hackish.
Definitions of Hook 
Afrikaans: hoek
Arabic: صِنّارة صَيْد
Bulgarian: кука
Brazilian: anzol
Czech: háček
German: der Angelhaken
Danish: krog; -krog
Greek: αγκίστρι
Spanish: anzuelo
Estonian: konks
Farsi: قلاب
Finnish: koukku
French: hameçon
Hebrew: חַכָּה
Hindi: अंकुश
Croatian: udica
Hungarian: horog
Indonesian: kail
Icelandic: krókur, öngull
Italian: amo
Japanese: つり針
Korean: 낚싯바늘
Lithuanian: kabliukas
Latvian: āķis
Malay: cangkuk
Dutch: vishaak
Norwegian: krok
Polish: haczyk
Persian: قلاب
Pashto: چنګک
Portuguese: anzol
Romanian: cârlig
Russian: крючок
Slovak: hák
Slovenian: trnek
Serbian: udica
Swedish: krok
Thai: เบ็ด
Turkish: çengel, kanca
Taiwanese: 鉤
Ukrainian: крючок, гачок
Urdu: قلابہ، کانٹا
Vietnamese: lưỡi câu
Chinese: 钩
