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crook
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??k/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /k?u?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *cr?c (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *kr?k, from Proto-Germanic *kr?kaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”).
Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).
Noun
crook (plural crooks)
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- 1842, William Edward Hoskins, De Valencourt
- he walks bye lanes, and crooks
- 1842, William Edward Hoskins, De Valencourt
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
- (obsolete) A gibbet.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
- A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
- 1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, p.583:
- Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
- 1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, p.583:
- A bishop's staff of office.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- c. 1547, Thomas Cranmer, Against Transubstantiation
- for all your brags, hooks, and crooks
- c. 1547, Thomas Cranmer, Against Transubstantiation
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- 1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
- "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I?m not a crook. I?ve earned everything I?ve got."
- 1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
- A pothook.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Synonyms
- (criminal): See Thesaurus:criminal
Derived terms
- by hook or by crook
- by hook or crook (US)
Translations
Verb
crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)
- (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
- He crooked his finger toward me.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, [1]
- No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.
- 1784, William Blake, Songs from An Island in the Moon, in Blake: The Complete Poems, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 50,
- For if a damsel's blind or lame, / Or nature's hand has crooked her frame, / Or if she's deaf or is wall-eyed; / Yet if her heart is well inclined, / Some tender lover she shall find / That panteth for a bride.
- 1917, Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (translator) Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 5,
- “ […] In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair […] .
- (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Wisdom For a Man's Self," The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, [2]
- The referring of all to a man's self, is more tolerable in a sovereign prince; because themselves are not only themselves, but their good and evil is at the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil, in a servant to a prince, or a citizen in a republic. For whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentric to the ends of his master, or state.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Wisdom For a Man's Self," The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, [2]
Derived terms
- crooked (adjective)
Translations
Etymology 2
From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).
Adjective
crook (comparative crooker, superlative crookest)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
- That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
- Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
- 1981, Herman Charles Bosman, The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, page 101,
- The soup was crook. It was onkus. A yellow-bellied platypus couldn?t drink it […]
- “They?re always crook at my home.”
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
- I?m feeling a bit crook.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
- be crook at/about; go crook at
- 2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17,
- Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
- 2007, Jo Wainer, Bess, Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories, page 159,
- I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.
Derived terms
- crook as Rookwood
References
Middle English
Verb
crook
- Alternative form of croken
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arc
English
Etymology
From Middle English ark, borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arch and arco.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: äk, IPA(key): /??k/
- (US) enPR: ärk, IPA(key): /??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
- Homophone: ark
Noun
arc (plural arcs)
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
- A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
- A story arc. [from 20th c.]
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
- (film) An arclight.
Synonyms
- (curve): curve, swoop
- (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
- (directed edge): arrow, directed edge
Derived terms
- arcweld
- mercury arc rectifier
Translations
Verb
arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
- 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
- A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
- 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
- (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
- (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.
Related terms
- arch
Further reading
- arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- arc in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- arc at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- CAR, CRA, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?a?k/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ark/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
- (geometry) arc
- (architecture) arch
Derived terms
- arc de Sant Martí
- arc de triomf
- arc iris
- arcada
- arcbotant
- arcar
- arquejar
- arquer
See also
- fletxa
Further reading
- “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “arc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “arc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “arc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?k/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- arc (curve)
- (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
- (architecture) arch
Derived terms
See also
- flèche f
- arche f
Anagrams
- car
Further reading
- “arc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Related terms
- arcâ
See also
- frece
Hungarian
Etymology
An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??rt?s]
- Rhymes: -?rt?s
Noun
arc (plural arcok)
- (anatomy) face
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- arc in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??k/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- piglet
- diminutive animal or person
Alternative forms
- earc
Synonyms
- arcachán
- arcadán
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- (mathematics, geometry) arc
Derived terms
- arclampa (“arc-lamp”)
Etymology 3
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?k/
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow
- arch, arc
Derived terms
Old French
Etymology
From Latin arcus.
Noun
arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)
- bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
- (architecture) arch
Coordinate terms
- (bow): saete
Descendants
- ? Middle English: ark, arke
- English: arc
- French: arc
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ark/
Adjective
arc
- Alternative form of arg
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.
Noun
arc n (plural arcuri)
- bow (a weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Declension
Noun
arc n (plural arce)
- (geometry) arc
Declension
Derived terms
- arcad?
- arcan
- arcatur?
- arca?
- arcui
- arcuibil
- arcuire
- arcuit
- arcuitur?
- arcule?
- arcu?
Related terms
- arcar
See also
- s?geat?
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arxk/
Noun
arc f
- Bee (apoidea).
- Wasp (vespidae).
- Impost, tax.
- "Femen."(sic)
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