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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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loop
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
- Homophone: loupe
Etymology 1
From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run", literally, "a leap”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap.
Noun
loop (plural loops)
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- The opening so formed.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
- A ring road or beltway.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- (rail transport) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
- (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
Hypernyms
- control structure
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- loophole
- loop line, loopline
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From the noun.
Verb
loop (third-person singular simple present loops, present participle looping, simple past and past participle looped)
- (transitive) To form something into a loop.
- (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- (transitive) To move something in a loop.
- (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- (intransitive) To form a loop.
- (intransitive) To move in a loop.
- The program loops until the user presses a key.
- To place in a loop.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- loop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
- Appendix:Parts of the knot
Anagrams
- OOPL, Polo, Pool, polo, pool
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??p/
Etymology 1
From Dutch lopen, from Middle Dutch lôpen, from Old Dutch l?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run”).
Verb
loop (present loop, present participle lopende, past participle geloop)
- (intransitive) to walk
Alternative forms
- loep (Western Cape)
Etymology 2
From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.
Noun
loop (plural lope, diminutive lopie)
- walking, gait
- (of events) course
- (of guns) barrel
- (informal) business end (of a rifle, etc.)
- (music, usually in diminutive) run: a rapid passage in music, especially along a scale
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?p/
- Hyphenation: loop
- Rhymes: -o?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.
Noun
loop m (plural lopen, diminutive loopje n)
- course, duration
- a river course
- course of a projectile
- barrel (of a firearm)
Derived terms
Related terms
- lopen
Descendants
- Afrikaans: loop
- ? Indonesian: lop
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
loop
- first-person singular present indicative of lopen
- imperative of lopen
Anagrams
- Pool, pool
Portuguese
Noun
loop m (plural loops)
- (computing) loop (repeating sequence of instructions)
- loop (aircraft manoeuvre)
Synonyms
- (programmed sequence of instructions): ciclo, laço
- (aircraft manoeuvre): looping
Derived terms
- in loop
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