Crook

[krʊk]

解释:

(noun.) a long staff with one end being hook shaped.

(verb.) bend or cause to bend; 'He crooked his index finger'; 'the road curved sharply'.

整理:玛米--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

(n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

(n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

(n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

(n.) A pothook.

(n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

(n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

(n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

(n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

(n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

(v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

巴里整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Bend, flexure, curvature, turn.

v. a. Bend, curve, incurvate, bow, inflect, make crooked.

布鲁克整理

解释:

n. a bend anything bent: a curved tube used to lower the pitch of a cornet &c.: the bending of the body in reverence: a staff bent at the end as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick: (Spens.) gibbet.—v.t. to bend or form into a hook: to turn from the straight line or from what is right.—v.i. to bend or be bent.—n. Crook′back (Shak.) a hunchback.—adj. Crook′backed; Crook′ed bent like a crook: not straight: deviating from rectitude perverse.—adv. Crook′edly.—n. Crook′edness.—adjs. Crook′-kneed; Crook′-shoul′dered.—A crook in the lot any trial in one's experience.

黛布拉整理