hook Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | hook Explications et Prononciations

A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.

Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

That 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, e.g. g and j.

A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

The song's hook snared me.

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.

A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.

INF Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.

He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

(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.

(baseball) A curveball.

He threw a hook in the dirt.

(software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.

We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward and forward compatible to future versions of the standard.

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade.

(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.

(boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc.

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

SLA A jack (the playing card).

(typography, rare) A háček.

(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.

Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.

(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

(bridge) SLA A finesse.

A snare; a trap.

A field sown two years in succession.

(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

(geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

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VT To attach a hook to.
1. Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

VT To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

VT To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.

She's only here to try to hook a husband.
A free trial is a good way to hook customers.

(Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.

VT To connect (hook into, hook together).

If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

(Usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.

(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.

(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player).

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

(soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

VI SLA To engage in prostitution.

I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

(bridge) SLA To finesse.

VT To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

VI To move or go with a sudden turn.

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latch took.
- The heart nerve was partially desheathed and hooked to bipolar electrodes connected to an electrical stimulator (Accupulser Signal Generator, WPI).
- That guy told me he didn't get his ticket, can you hook him up for me?
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- On his third full-length record, Every Dog Has Its Day, prodigy producer and ultrapop songster Mitch Easter continues his search for the perfect hook.

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