different between hook vs closure

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

Etymology

From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?'zhûr
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?kl??.??(?)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?.??/, /?klo?.??/

Noun

closure (countable and uncountable, plural closures)

1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4. (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
5. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
   • 1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold], John L. Kelley, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42,

     The closure (${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {T}}}$-closure) of a subset A of a topological space ${\displaystyle (X,{\mathfrak {T}})}$ is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A. […]

     7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

7. The act of shutting; a closing.

   the closure of a door, or of a chink

8. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
   • 1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284,

     I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer.

9. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare Richard III, Act 3, Scene 3, 1765, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (editors) The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume XI, 1808, page 97,

     O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.

10. (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
11. (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ^Wp
12. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
    • 2009, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith, The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture (page 166)

      The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.

Hyponyms

• (computing): function closure, lexical closure
• (device): clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

Troponyms

• (computer science) thunk

Derived terms

• closure operator
• closure space

Translations

See also

• cloture

References

• closure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Clouser, colures