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English

Alternative forms

• secuer (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin securus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??kj??(?)/, /s??kj??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??kj??/, /s??kj?/, /s??kj??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: se?cure

Adjective

secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)

1. Free from attack or danger; protected.
2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
4. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

   • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.

5. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
6. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
7. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
8. (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
9. Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

Antonyms

• insecure

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• securely

Related terms

• security

Translations

Verb

secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)

1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

   • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.

   to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage

   • 1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion

     It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.

3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

   to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

   to secure an estate

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.

Derived terms

• securement

Translations

Further reading

• secure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• secure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer

Italian

Adjective

secure

1. feminine plural of securo

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se?ku?.re/, [s???ku???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]

Noun

sec?re

1. ablative singular of sec?ris

Etymology 2

securus +? -?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se??ku?.re?/, [s?e??ku??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]

Adverb

s?c?r? (comparative s?c?rius, superlative s?c?rissim?)

1. carelessly
2. fearlessly
3. quietly

References

• secure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• secure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Alternative forms

• s?cure (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin sec?ris, sec?rem. Compare Italian scure.

Noun

secure f (plural securi)

1. axe, hatchet
2. battle axe, halberd

Declension

Synonyms

• topor

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”).