Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HOOK

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Definitions of HOOK

1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
4. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
5. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
6. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
7. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
8. A snare; a trap.
9. An advantageous hold.
10. (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
11. (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
12. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
13. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
14. (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
15. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
16. (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
17. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
18. (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
19. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
20. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
21. (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
22. (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
23. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
24. (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
25. (typography, rare) A háček.
26. Senses relating to sports.
27. (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
28. (slang) A prostitute.
29. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
30. (surfing) Synonym of shoulder
31. (nautical, chiefly, historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
32. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
33. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
34. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
35. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
36. (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
37. (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
38. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
39. (usually, in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
40. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
41. (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
42. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
43. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
44. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
45. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
46. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
47. A surname.
48. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
49. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.
50. (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
51. To acquire as a spouse.
52. (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player

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Examples of Using HOOK in a Sentence

• The word comes from the German , short for , meaning "carbine hook," as the device was used by carabiniers to attach their carbines to their belts.
• The genus name Aquilegia comes from the Latin "Aquila", or "eagle"; this is in obvious reference to the spurred, "hook" shapes within the blooms, that many gardeners say resemble an eagle's talons.
• It employs the use of a long double-ended hook, which permits the maker to work stitches on or off from either end.
• When off hook the weight of the receiver no longer depresses the spring-loaded switchhook, thereby connecting the instrument to the telephone line.
• Modern recreational fishing reels usually have fittings aiding in casting for distance and accuracy, as well as controlling the speed and tension of line retrieval to avoid line snap and hook dislodgement.
• A fishing line is any flexible, high-tensile cord used in angling to tether and pull in fish, in conjunction with at least one hook.
• The origin of its name is based on the weakness of the mouth muscles, which often cause a hook to tear free, allowing the fish to escape.
• It can have a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants and protecting allied soldiers, typically musketeers.
• Needlework may include related textile crafts such as crochet, worked with a hook, or tatting, worked with a shuttle.
• Tunisian crochet or Afghan crochet is a type of crochet that uses an elongated hook, often with a stopper on the handle end, called an Afghan hook.
• He also incorporates, on quinqueremes, a technical innovation, called the harpax ("snatcher"): a combination ballista and grappling hook, based on the corvus.
• The world's greatest archer, as well as a competent swordsman and martial artist, Green Arrow deploys a range of trick arrows (in contemporary times, they are referred as "specialty arrows") with various special functions, such as glue, explosive-tipped, grappling hook, flash grenade, tear gas, and even kryptonite arrows for use in a range of special situations.
• The word "crotchet" comes from Old French , meaning 'little hook', diminutive of , 'hook', because of the hook used on the note in black notation of the medieval period.
• Some exploits common to most Polynesian traditions are stealing fire for humans from the underworld, fishing up islands with his magical hook, and capturing the Sun to lengthen the days.

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