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Definition of 'hook'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hook
a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.

2.  hook
a fishhook.

3.  hook
anything that catches; snare; trap.

4.  hook
something that attracts attention or entices:
a sales hook.

5.  hook
something, as a mark or symbol, having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end.

6.  hook
a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.

7.  hook
a curved spit of land.

8.  hook
a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.

9.  hook
a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.

10.  hook
a buttonhook.

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

9. (verb) hook
fasten with a hook

10. (verb) overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
rip off; ask an unreasonable price

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"

Definition of 'hook'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

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 much more flexible for future expansion of capabilities (EMACS, for example, is all hooks). The term user exit is synonymous but much more formal and less hackish.

Translation of 'hook'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a small piece of metal shaped like a J fixed at the end of a fishing-line used for catching fish etc a fish-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
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