different between hook vs anchor

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoke, from Old English h?c, from Proto-West Germanic *h?k, from Proto-Germanic *h?kaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho?ok, IPA^(key): /h?k/
• (sometimes in Northern England, otherwise obsolete) enPR: ho?ok IPA^(key): /hu?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

hook (plural hooks)

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. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
10. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.

11. (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
12. (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.
13. (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.
14. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
15. (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
16. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
17. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
18. (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
19. (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.

    Synonym: endpoint

20. (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.
21. (typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ?.
22. (typography, rare) a há?ek.
    • 2003, Language Issues XV–XVIII, page 36

      Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ? (as in ha?ek – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robi? – Polish for ‘do/make’).

    • 2003, David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of Antonín Dvo?ák, page 168

      In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ?, called ha?ek or “hook.”

    • 2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown

      In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to ?esko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.

23. Senses relating to sports.
    1. (baseball) A curveball.

    2. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
    3. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
    4. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
    5. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
    6. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
24. (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
25. (slang) A prostitute.

    Synonym: hooker

    • 1983, G. W. Levi Kamel, Downtown Street Hustlers (page 160)

      I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.

26. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
    • 1885, Michael Davitt, Leaves from a Prison Diary (page 18)

      He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.

    • 2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (page 58)

      "Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.

Hyponyms

• grappling hook

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. Template:isbn

Verb

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

1. (transitive) To attach a hook to.

2. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

3. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
4. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

5. (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

6. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
7. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).

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

9. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
10. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
11. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

12. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
13. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.

14. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
15. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
16. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
17. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

Derived terms

• hooker
• hook up

Translations

References

Anagrams

• OHKO

Indonesian

Etymology

• From Dutch hoek (“corner, angle”), from Middle Dutch hoec, huoc, from Old Dutch *huok, from Proto-Germanic *h?kaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
• The hyper-correction influenced by the cognate English hook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?k?]

Noun

hook (first-person possessive hookku, second-person possessive hookmu, third-person possessive hooknya)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of huk (“land or building at the corner”).

English

Alternative forms

• anchour (chiefly archaic)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ?.k?/
• (US) enPR: ?ng?k?r, IPA^(key): /?æ?.k?/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ?????? (ánkura). The modern spelling is a sixteenth-century modification to better represent the Latin spelling anchora, a variant of the older Latin spelling ancora.

Noun

anchor (plural anchors)

1. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
2. (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
3. (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
4. (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
5. Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
6. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
7. (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
8. (athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
9. (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
10. (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.

    Synonym: anchor tenant

    • 2006, Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment (issues 1650-1666, page 15)

      Supermarkets have also had to adjust. Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have put a much greater emphasis on developing smaller high street stores or becoming anchors for mixed-used regeneration schemes […]

    • 2007, A. Sivakumar, Retail Marketing (page 102)

      However, mall developers offer huge discounts to department stores because these anchors create traffic […]

11. (figuratively) That which gives stability or security.
12. (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
13. (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
14. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
15. One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
16. (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
17. (obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
18. (slang) The brake of a vehicle.
    • 1967, Terry Carr, New Worlds of Fantasy, Ace Books, page 56:

      I saw Tim look back through the rear window of the cab and prayed he wouldn't do the first thing that came into his mind and step on the anchors.

    • 2005, urban legend, The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend, Wordsworth Editions, page 150:

      [Police:] ‘… when we blow the horn, you do an emergency stop.’ So the foaf did as he was bid and, hearing an almighty horn blast stepped on the anchors. There was a most tremendous crash as the Police car ran into the back of his Austin.

    • 2008, Gavin Haines, Wheels on fire, Bournemouth Daily Echo:

      “Brake, brake, brake! You need to scrub off more speed before you enter the corner,” he explained, as I took his advice and jumped on the anchors.

19. (soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.

Usage notes

Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor, best bower, bower, stream and kedge anchors, depending on purpose and, to a great extent, on mass and size of the anchor. Modern usage is storm anchor for the heaviest anchor with the longest rode, best bower or simply bower for the most commonly used anchor deployed from the bow, and stream or lunch hook for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the stern.

Hyponyms

(television): anchorwoman, anchoress

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English anchoren, ankeren, either from the noun or perhaps (via Old French ancrer) from a Medieval Latin verb ancorare, from the same Latin word ancora.

Verb

anchor (third-person singular simple present anchors, present participle anchoring, simple past and past participle anchored)

1. To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
2. To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

   Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

3. To stop; to fix or rest.
4. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
5. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
6. To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

Synonyms

• (to hold an object to a fixed point): affix, fix
• (to cast anchor): drop anchor
• (to stop): cease, hold; See also Thesaurus:stop
• (to provide emotional stability): support
• (to perform as a TV anchorman): host, present
• (to be stuck): bog down, embog, enmire

Derived terms

• disanchor
• unanchor

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Noun

anchor (plural anchors)

1. Alternative form of anker

References

Anagrams

• Charon, achorn, archon, noarch, rancho

Asturian

Etymology

Compare anchu.

Noun

anchor m (plural anchors)

1. width

Synonyms

• ancheza
• anchura

Related terms

• anchu

Irish

Etymology

From an- (“bad, unnatural”) +? cor (“turn”) (compare droch-chor (“bad turn; unfortunate happening, ill plight”)).

Noun

anchor m (genitive singular anchoir)

1. ill-treatment

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "anchor" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Spanish

Etymology

From ancho +? -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?t??o?/, [ãn??t??o?]

Noun

anchor m (plural anchores)

1. (rare) width

   Synonyms: anchura, ancho

Further reading

• “anchor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.