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Hook can be a noun or a verb.
hook used as a noun:
- 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
- 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 draw the reader or viewer into a book or play.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
"He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook." - 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.
- A curveball.
"He threw a hook in the dirt." - 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." - A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
- 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.
- 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." - A jack (the playing card)
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
hook used as a verb:
- To attach a hook to.
"Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away." - To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
"He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water." - To connect (hook into, hook together).
"If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network." - hook up: To meet.
"You guys go ahead to the fair, and we'll hook up with you later." - hook up: To have sexual intercourse with.
"She got wasted at the party and ended up hooking up with her ex." - (Usually in passive) To make addicted (I'm hooked).
"He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth." - To play a hook shot.
- 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." - 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."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is hook?
- Noun usage: The song's hook snared me.
- Noun usage: He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
- Noun usage: He threw a hook in the dirt.
- Noun usage: 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.
- Noun usage: The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
- Verb usage: Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
- Verb usage: He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
- Verb usage: If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
- Verb usage: You guys go ahead to the fair, and we'll hook up with you later.
- Verb usage: She got wasted at the party and ended up hooking up with her ex.
- Verb usage: He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
- Verb usage: The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
- Verb usage: I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hook are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hook, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).