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hook
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)
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A snare; a trap.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- (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.
- (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.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- Synonym: endpoint
- (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.
- (typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ?.
- (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”.
- 2003, Language Issues XV–XVIII, page 36
- Senses relating to sports.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- (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.
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (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.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (baseball) A curveball.
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1885, Michael Davitt, Leaves from a Prison Diary (page 18)
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)
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (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)
- (colloquial) alternative form of huk (“land or building at the corner”).
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coupler
English
Etymology
From couple +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?pl?/
Noun
coupler (plural couplers)
- (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
- Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
- (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin c?pul?re, present active infinitive of c?pul?. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ple/
Verb
coupler
- to couple
Conjugation
Derived terms
- accoupler
- découpler
Further reading
- “coupler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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