Hook

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hook \Hook\ (h[oo^]k; 277), n. [OE. hok, AS. h[=o]c; cf. D.
     haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icel.
     haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. {Arquebuse}, {Hagbut}, {Hake},
     {Hatch} a half door, {Heckle}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on
        which a door or gate hangs and turns.
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     3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an
        instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
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              Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.
                                                    --Pope.
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     4. (Steam Engin.) See {Eccentric}, and {V-hook}.
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     5. A snare; a trap. [R.] --Shak.
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     6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
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     7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; --
        called also {hook bones}.
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     8. (Geog.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned
        landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
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     9. (Sports) The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or
        baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball;
        in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer
        who struck the ball.
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     10. (Computers) A procedure within the encoding of a computer
         program which allows the user to modify the program so as
         to import data from or export data to other programs.
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     {By hook or by crook}, one way or other; by any means, direct
        or indirect. --Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or
        crook." --Spenser.
  
     {Off the hook}, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as,
        to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job.
        [Colloq.]
  
     {Off the hooks}, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.]
        "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom
        I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone
        out of the river." --Pepys.
  
     {On one's own hook}, on one's own account or responsibility;
        by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
     {To go off the hooks}, to die. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
  
     {Bid hook}, a small boat hook.
  
     {Chain hook}. See under {Chain}.
  
     {Deck hook}, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a
        ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.
  
     {Hook and eye}, one of the small wire hooks and loops for
        fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
        
  
     {Hook bill} (Zool.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.
  
     {Hook ladder}, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can
        be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
  
     {Hook motion} (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed
        by V hooks.
  
     {Hook squid}, any squid which has the arms furnished with
        hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera
        {Enoploteuthis} and {Onychteuthis}.
  
     {Hook wrench}, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end,
        instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or
        coupling.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hook \Hook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hooked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Hooking}.]
     1. 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.
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              Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W.
                                                    Collins.
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     2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
        in attacking enemies; to gore.
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     3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
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     {To hook on}, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hook \Hook\, v. i.
     1. To bend; to curve as a hook.
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     2. To move or go with a sudden turn; hence [Slang or Prov.
        Eng.], to make off; to clear out; -- often with it.
        "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." --Kipling.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hook
       n 1: a catch for locking a door
       2: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: {crotchet}]
       3: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: {bait}, {come-on},
           {lure}, {sweetener}]
       4: a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or
          hold or pull something [syn: {claw}]
       5: a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling
          something
       6: a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed
          golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking" [syn: {draw},
           {hooking}]
       7: a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the
          elbow bent
       8: a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is
          farther from the basket [syn: {hook shot}]
       v 1: fasten with a hook [ant: {unhook}]
       2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: {overcharge}, {soak},
           {surcharge}, {gazump}, {fleece}, {plume}, {pluck}, {rob}]
          [ant: {undercharge}]
       3: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping
          thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all
          day" [syn: {crochet}]
       4: hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the
          left
       5: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: {snitch},
           {thieve}, {cop}, {knock off}, {glom}]
       6: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
           {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {sneak},
           {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
       7: hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"
       8: catch with a hook; "hook a fish"
       9: to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on
          something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: {addict}]
       10: secure with the foot; "hook the ball"
       11: entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three
           potential customers" [syn: {snare}]
       12: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited
           by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in
           the park" [syn: {solicit}, {accost}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  353 Moby Thesaurus words for "hook":
     L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor,
     anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex,
     appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand,
     backhander, backstroke, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, bar,
     batten, batten down, belt, bend, bend back, berth, bifurcate,
     bifurcation, bight, bill, birdlime, bola, bolo punch, bolt, boom,
     boost, borrow, bow, branch, breakwater, bring over, bring round,
     bring to reason, buckle, butt, button, cabbage, cant, cape,
     captivate, capture, catacaustic, catch, catch out, catenary,
     caustic, charm, chersonese, chevron, circle, clasp, claws, cleared,
     cleat, clip, clotheshorse, clothespin, clutches, cobweb, coin,
     collar, come what may, come-on, completely, con, conchoid,
     convince, cop, coral reef, corner, crane, crank, crib, crook,
     crotchet, curl, curve, decoy, decoy duck, decurve, deflect,
     deflection, defraud, delta, diacaustic, digits, dogleg, dome,
     dovetail, dragnet, draw over, drawcard, drawing card, elbow, ell,
     ellipse, embezzle, embow, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl,
     entangle, entirely, entoil, entrap, enweb, exonerated, extort,
     fangs, fastener, festoon, filch, fingernails, fingers, fishhook,
     flex, fly, foreland, fork, foul, furcate, furcation, gain,
     gain over, gallows, garter, gibbet, gill net, gin, grab,
     ground bait, hake, hands, hanger, harpoon, hasp, haymaker, head,
     headland, hinge, hitch, holder, hook, hook in, hooks, horse, hump,
     hunch, hyperbola, in the clear, incurvate, incurve, inflect,
     inflection, inveigle, jam, jaws, jig, joint, knee, knob, land,
     lariat, lasso, latch, let off, liberate, lift, lime, line, lituus,
     lock, loop, lure, make off with, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks,
     mesh, meshes, miter, mitts, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings,
     mortise, mudhook, mull, nab, nail, nails, naze, ness, net, nick,
     nip, nippers, nook, noose, off, one-two, out of it, outtalk, palm,
     parabola, peg, peninsula, persuade, pilfer, pin, pincers, pinch,
     plug, poach, point, pothook, pounces, pound net, prevail on,
     prevail upon, prevail with, promontory, purloin, purse seine,
     quoin, rabbet, recurve, reef, reflect, reflex, remove, retroflex,
     ring, rip off, rivet, rob, rope, round, round-arm blow, roundhouse,
     run away with, rustle, sack, sag, sandspit, scarf, screw, scrounge,
     seine, seize, sell, sell one on, set free, sew, shoplift,
     short-arm blow, sidewinder, sinus, skewer, slip, snag, snap, snare,
     snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, somehow or other, someway, spar,
     spear, spinner, spit, spread the toils, springe, spur, squid,
     staple, steal, stick, stitch, stud, suspenders, suspensory, swag,
     sway, sweep, swerve, swindle, swing, swipe, tack, take, talk into,
     talk over, talons, tangle, tangle up with, teeth, thieve,
     thoroughly, through and through, toggle, toils, tongue, totally,
     tracery, trap, trawl, trip, turn, unguals, ungulae, uppercut,
     utterly, vault, veer, vertex, vindicated, walk off with, wangle,
     wangle into, wear down, wedge, wholly, win, win over, wind,
     wobbler, yard, yardarm, zag, zig, zigzag, zipper
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  hook n. 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  HOOK
       
          ? Object Oriented Kernel.  Delphia.  An object-oriented
          extension of Delphia Prolog.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.
       
          (1997-06-25)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hook
     (1.) Heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to
     which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2
     Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). "The Orientals
     make use of this contrivance for curbing their
     work-beasts...When a beast becomes unruly they have only to draw
     the cord on one side, which, by stopping his breath, punishes
     him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails not to
     become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it"
     (Michaelis). So God's agents are never beyond his control.
     
       (2.) Hakkah, a fish "hook" (Job 41:2, Heb. Text, 40:25; Isa.
     19:8; Hab. 1:15).
     
       (3.) Vav, a "peg" on which the curtains of the tabernacle were
     hung (Ex. 26:32).
     
       (4.) Tsinnah, a fish-hooks (Amos 4:2).
     
       (5.) Mazleg, flesh-hooks (1 Sam. 2:13, 14), a kind of fork
     with three teeth for turning the sacrifices on the fire, etc.
     
       (6.) Mazmeroth, pruning-hooks (Isa. 2:4; Joel 3:10).
     
       (7.) 'Agmon (Job 41:2, Heb. Text 40:26), incorrectly rendered
     in the Authorized Version. Properly a rush-rope for binding
     animals, as in Revised Version margin.