Hook

[hʊk]

解释:

(noun.) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.

(noun.) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; 'he took lessons to cure his hooking'.

(noun.) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.

(noun.) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.

(noun.) a catch for locking a door.

(noun.) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.

(verb.) approach with an offer of sexual favors; 'he was solicited by a prostitute'; 'The young man was caught soliciting in the park'.

(verb.) entice and trap; 'The car salesman had snared three potential customers'.

(verb.) secure with the foot; 'hook the ball'.

(verb.) fasten with a hook.

(verb.) catch with a hook; 'hook a fish'.

(verb.) hit with a hook; 'His opponent hooked him badly'.

(verb.) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.

(verb.) take by theft; 'Someone snitched my wallet!'.

奥德丽整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.

(n.) A snare; a trap.

(n.) A field sown two years in succession.

(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

(v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

(v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

(v. t.) To steal.

(v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

录入:山姆

同义词及近义词：

n. Catch, clasp, HASP.

录入:厄普顿

解释:

n. a piece of metal bent into a curve so as to catch or hold anything: a snare: an advantageous hold: a curved instrument for cutting grain: a spit of land projecting into the sea ending in a hook-shaped form.—v.t. to catch or hold with a hook: to draw as with a hook: to ensnare: (golf) to drive a ball widely to the left—also Draw.—v.i. to bend: to be curved.—adj. Hooked.—ns. Hook′edness the state of being bent like a hook; Hook′er he who or that which hooks.—adj. Hook′-nosed having a hooked or curved nose.—n. Hook′-pin an iron pin with hooked head used for pinning the frame of a floor or roof together.—adj. Hook′y full of or pertaining to hooks.—Hook and eye a contrivance for fastening dresses by means of a hook made to fasten on a ring or eye on another part of the dress; Hook it (slang) to decamp make off.—By hook or by crook one way or the other; Off the hooks out of gear: superseded: dead; On one's own hook on one's own responsibility.

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