Word Finder - hooks

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A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

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A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

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Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

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The curved needle used in the art of crochet.

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The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

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A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.

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A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.

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A snare; a trap.

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(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

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Removal or expulsion from a group or activity

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He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

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A field sown two years in succession.

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(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.

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(authorship) 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.

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A finesse.

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A jack (the playing card).

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A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

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A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

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The song's hook snared me.

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A ship's anchor.

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Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.

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We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

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(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.

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A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.

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A háček.

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Senses relating to sports.

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To attach a hook to.

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Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

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To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

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He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

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To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

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To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

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He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

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To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

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A free trial is a good way to hook customers.

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To steal.

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To connect (hook into, hook together).

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If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

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(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

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He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

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To play a hook shot.

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To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

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To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

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The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

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To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

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To engage in prostitution.

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I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

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(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

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To finesse.

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To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

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To move or go with a sudden turn.

Not if Romas hooks you up with one of his brothers.

It is therefore from the point of view of its "charm" that the genius of Stevenson must be approached, and in this respect there was between himself and his hooks, his manners and his style, his practice and his theory, a very unusual harmony.

Again, the adult Pentastomum shows no trace of appendages, unless the two pairs of chitinous hooks are to be regarded as the vestiges of jaws or ambulatory limbs.

The hooks may be of two or three shapes.

Large objects are suspended in the tanks by hooks or wires, care being taken to shift their position and so avoid wire-marks.

The proboscis bears rings of recurved hooks arranged in horizontal rows, and it is by means of these hooks that the animal attaches itself to the tissues of its host.

The former bears two terminal suckers on the flattened dorsal and ventral surfaces, the latter six hooks near the tip of the tail.

Bra hooks can scratch and tear the fabric.

She pulled the rocker to the edge of the porch and lifted the plants to some hooks.

Piercing jaws modified and reduced, a tubular, protrusible suckingtrunk being developed; mouth with hooks.

Its integument is marked by a large number of transverse grooves simulating the segmentation of Annelids, and near the anterior extremity close to the mouth are two pairs of recurved chitinous hooks.

The mouth is terminal and anterior and surrounded by a ring of spicules or a half-ring of hooks.

The egg gives rise to an oval larva, one half of which is ciliated and bears gland-cells, the opposite end carrying ten hooks.

It bears adhesive organs that are either suckers or hooks, and may develop into the most varied outgrowths in order to give increased firmness of attachment to its host.

These complex organs have apparently arisen by the increase in depth and differentiation of an accessory sucker such as is borne on the phyllidia of the former group. Lastly, the scolex of the more familiar Taeniidae (Tetracotylea) carries a rostellum encircled with hooks and four cup-shaped suckers the margins of which do not project beyond the surface of the body.

C, portion of a proboscis showing the two forms of hooks; highly magnified.

These organs may be raised on a short stalk, their cavity subdivided into loculi, and provided in some cases with hooks.

A peculiar modification of this type of scolex occurs in the Echinobothridae, in which the axial part of the organ (the rostellum) is elongated and provided with several rows of hooks, whilst the phyllidia have partially fused.

The thicker portion develops a terminal muscular rostellum and two or four suckers, the thinner end (" tail ") is vesicular, more or less elongated, and contains the six embryonic hooks.

In the ectoparasitic Trematodes this post-oral sucker is a complex disk placed near the hinder end and provided With suckerlets, hooks and a musculature arising from a special skeleton.

Another form, Rhopalophorus, has two cephalic tentacles that are retractile and covered with hooks.

The body is enveloped by a thick striated protective cuticle which is frequently raised into hooks or spines.

In Distomum acanthocephalum the cuticle forms circlets of large and small hooks at the anterior end, somewhat as in Cestodes.

The large posterior organ of attachment is usually wheel-shaped and provided with hooks; but the ridges may become separated 'FIG.

A, Dorsal view showing the nervous system and digestive system; a, mouth; b, pharynx; c, d, e, gut; E, post-genital union of two limbs of gut; f, excretory pore; g, vaginal pore; h, j, k, brain and nerves; 1, dorsal nerves; m, ventral nerves; n, adoral sucker; o, posterior sucker; p, hooks on posterior sucker; r, vitello-intestinal duct.

The Japanese then recognized a lofty civilization and placed themselves as pupils at its feet, learning its script and deciphering its hooks.

In the latter case the larva crawls about the bottom of the water or up the stems of plants, with its thickly-chitinized head and legs protruding from the larger orifice, while it maintains a secure hold of the silk lining of the tube by means of a pair of strong hooks at the posterior end of its soft defenceless abdomen.

Mention has already been made of the series of curved hooks along the costa of the hind-wing; by means of this arrangement the two wings of a side are firmly joined together during flight, which thus becomes particularly accurate.

The Tenthredinidae, or true saw-flies, are distinguished by two spines on each fore-shin, while the larvae are usually caterpillars, with three pairs of thoracic legs, and from six to eight pairs of abdominal prolegs, the latter not possessing the hooks found on the pro-legs of lepidopterous caterpillars.

To prevent accidents from the breaking of the rope while the cage is travelling in the shaft, or from over-winding when in consequence of the engine not being stopped in time the cage may be drawn up to the head-gear pulleys (both of which are unhappily not uncommon), various forms of safety catches and disconnecting hooks have been adopted.

For the prevention of accidents from over-winding, detaching hooks are used.

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

It is frequently armed with spines, hooks or stylets, and is further complicated by the addition of a nutritive secretion (the prostate gland) which may open at its base or pass separately by a special duct to the exterior.

The almost spherical head is covered by a hood which can be retracted; it bears upon its side a number of sickle-shaped, chitinous hooks and one or more short rows of low 89 spines - both of these features are used in characterizing the various species.

The interior of the head is filled up with masses of muscle fibres which are mainly occupied with moving the sickle-shaped hooks.

Very durable trellises for greenhouse climbers are made of slender round iron rods for standards, having a series of hooks on the inner edge, into which rings of similar metal are dropped; the rings may be graduated so as to form a broad open top, or may be all of the same size, when the trellis will assume the cylindrical form.

The advantage of the " reversing " system is that it avoids lifting the piece from below to above the middle roll, and again lowering it, which is rather difficult because the white-hot piece cannot be guided directly by hand, but must be moved by means of hooks, tongs, or even complex mechanism.

Some of the old writers supposed that they served as hooks by which the creature could rest its head on a branch.

They made mother-of-pearl fishhooks, and they still use a part of those old hooks - or artificial bait - in combination with steel hooks, the native-made portion being generally shaped like a small fish.

It is combed out with iron hooks until the rind is all removed.

The flower-stalk becomes recurved in the fruiting stage, and the fruit bears a number of hooks which enable it to cling to rough objects, such as the coat of an animal, thus ensuring distribution of the seed.

This was the time of the formation of the famous of the parties in Holland, known as Kabbeljauws (Cods) House of and Hoeks (Hooks); the former, the burgher party, Bavaria.

In Albert's latter years a fresh outbreak of civil war (1392-1395) was caused by the count's espousing the side of the Cods, while the Hooks had the support of his eldest son, William.

On his accession to power William upheld the Hooks, Iv i»iam and secured their ascendancy.

During the regency of Maximilian the turbulence of the Hooks caused much strife and unrest in Holland.

Their overthrow finally ended the strife between Hooks and Cods.

Hooks, thorns and prickles are characteristic of many South African plants.

The pair of beams are hung centrally by rods and hooks from knife-edges in the forked end of a strong beam, which is carried at its fulcrum by the top plate of the frame of the machine.

Consult also hooks cited under TIAN-SHAN, LOP-NOR, GOBI and KUEN-LUN.

There are all kinds of different tools, pitons, hammers to set pitons, ice screws, pound-ins, ice hooks, wired nuts and cams—different stuff for different surfaces.