[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hook \hook\ hoo^k; 277, n. oe. hok, as. h=oc; cf. d.
   haak, g. hake, haken, ohg. h=ako, h=ago, h=aggo, icel.
   haki, sw. hake, dan. hage. cf. arquebuse, hagbut, hake,
   hatch a half door, heckle.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. that part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on
      which a door or gate hangs and turns.
      1913 webster

   3. an implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an
      instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
      1913 webster

            like slashing bentley with his desperate hook.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. steam engin. see eccentric, and v-hook.
      1913 webster

   5. a snare; a trap. r. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. a field sown two years in succession. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   7. pl. the projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; --
      called also hook bones.
      1913 webster

   8. geog. a spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned
      landward at the outer end; as, sandy hook in new jersey.
      webster 1913 suppl. +pjc

   9. sports the curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or
      baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball;
      in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer
      who struck the ball.
      pjc

   10. computers a procedure within the encoding of a computer
       program which allows the user to modify the program so as
       to import data from or export data to other programs.
       pjc

   by hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct
      or indirect. --milton. "in hope her to attain by hook or
      crook." --spenser.

   off the hook, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as,
      to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job.
      colloq.

   off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. colloq.
      "in the evening, by water, to the duke of albemarle, whom
      i found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone
      out of the river." --pepys.

   on one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility;
      by one's self. colloq. u.s. --bartlett.

   to go off the hooks, to die. colloq. --thackeray.

   bid hook, a small boat hook.

   chain hook. see under chain.

   deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a
      ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.

   hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for
      fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
      

   hook bill zool., the strongly curved beak of a bird.

   hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can
      be suspended, as from the top of a wall.

   hook motion steam engin., a valve gear which is reversed
      by v hooks.

   hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with
      hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera
      enoploteuthis and onychteuthis.

   hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end,
      instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or
      coupling.
      1913 webster
see also:
arquebuse hagbut hake hatch heckle eccentric 
v-hook hook bones by hook or by crook off the hook off the hooks 
on one's own hook to go off the hooks bid hook chain hook chain 
deck hook hook and eye hook bill hook ladder hook motion 
hook squid enoploteuthis onychteuthis hook wrench 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hook \hook\, v. t. imp.  p. p. hooked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   hooking.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --w.
                                                  collins.
      1913 webster

   2. to seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
      in attacking enemies; to gore.
      1913 webster

   3. to steal. colloq. eng.  u.s.
      1913 webster

   to hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
      1913 webster
see also:
hooked hooking to hook on 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hook \hook\, v. i.
   1. to bend; to curve as a hook.
      1913 webster

   2. to move or go with a sudden turn; hence slang or prov.
      eng., to make off; to clear out; -- often with it.
      "duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." --kipling.
      webster 1913 suppl.

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hook
     n 1: a catch for locking a door
     2: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook syn: crotchet
     3: anything that serves as an enticement syn: bait, come-on,
         lure, sweetener
     4: a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or
        hold or pull something syn: claw
     5: a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling
        something
     6: a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed
        golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking" syn: draw,
         hooking
     7: a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the
        elbow bent
     8: a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is
        farther from the basket syn: hook shot
     v 1: fasten with a hook ant: unhook
     2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price syn: overcharge, soak,
         surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob
        ant: undercharge
     3: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping
        thread with a hooked needle; "she sat there crocheting all
        day" syn: crochet
     4: hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the
        left
     5: take by theft; "someone snitched my wallet" syn: snitch,
         thieve, cop, knock off, glom
     6: make off with belongings of others syn: pilfer, cabbage,
         purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, sneak,
         filch, nobble, lift
     7: hit with a hook; "his opponent hooked him badly"
     8: catch with a hook; "hook a fish"
     9: to cause someone or oneself to become dependent on
        something, especially a narcotic drug syn: addict
     10: secure with the foot; "hook the ball"
     11: entice and trap; "the car salesman had snared three
         potential customers" syn: snare
     12: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited
         by a prostitute"; "the young man was caught soliciting in
         the park" syn: solicit, accost
see also:
crotchet bait come-on lure sweetener claw 
draw hooking hook shot unhook overcharge 
soak surcharge gazump fleece plume 
pluck rob undercharge crochet snitch 
thieve cop knock off glom pilfer 
cabbage purloin pinch abstract snarf 
swipe sneak filch nobble lift 
addict snare solicit accost 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

353 moby thesaurus words for "hook":
   l, long melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor,
   anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex,
   appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand,
   backhander, backstroke, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, bar,
   batten, batten down, belt, bend, bend back, berth, bifurcate,
   bifurcation, bight, bill, birdlime, bola, bolo punch, bolt, boom,
   boost, borrow, bow, branch, breakwater, bring over, bring round,
   bring to reason, buckle, butt, button, cabbage, cant, cape,
   captivate, capture, catacaustic, catch, catch out, catenary,
   caustic, charm, chersonese, chevron, circle, clasp, claws, cleared,
   cleat, clip, clotheshorse, clothespin, clutches, cobweb, coin,
   collar, come what may, come-on, completely, con, conchoid,
   convince, cop, coral reef, corner, crane, crank, crib, crook,
   crotchet, curl, curve, decoy, decoy duck, decurve, deflect,
   deflection, defraud, delta, diacaustic, digits, dogleg, dome,
   dovetail, dragnet, draw over, drawcard, drawing card, elbow, ell,
   ellipse, embezzle, embow, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl,
   entangle, entirely, entoil, entrap, enweb, exonerated, extort,
   fangs, fastener, festoon, filch, fingernails, fingers, fishhook,
   flex, fly, foreland, fork, foul, furcate, furcation, gain,
   gain over, gallows, garter, gibbet, gill net, gin, grab,
   ground bait, hake, hands, hanger, harpoon, hasp, haymaker, head,
   headland, hinge, hitch, holder, hook, hook in, hooks, horse, hump,
   hunch, hyperbola, in the clear, incurvate, incurve, inflect,
   inflection, inveigle, jam, jaws, jig, joint, knee, knob, land,
   lariat, lasso, latch, let off, liberate, lift, lime, line, lituus,
   lock, loop, lure, make off with, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks,
   mesh, meshes, miter, mitts, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings,
   mortise, mudhook, mull, nab, nail, nails, naze, ness, net, nick,
   nip, nippers, nook, noose, off, one-two, out of it, outtalk, palm,
   parabola, peg, peninsula, persuade, pilfer, pin, pincers, pinch,
   plug, poach, point, pothook, pounces, pound net, prevail on,
   prevail upon, prevail with, promontory, purloin, purse seine,
   quoin, rabbet, recurve, reef, reflect, reflex, remove, retroflex,
   ring, rip off, rivet, rob, rope, round, round-arm blow, roundhouse,
   run away with, rustle, sack, sag, sandspit, scarf, screw, scrounge,
   seine, seize, sell, sell one on, set free, sew, shoplift,
   short-arm blow, sidewinder, sinus, skewer, slip, snag, snap, snare,
   snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, somehow or other, someway, spar,
   spear, spinner, spit, spread the toils, springe, spur, squid,
   staple, steal, stick, stitch, stud, suspenders, suspensory, swag,
   sway, sweep, swerve, swindle, swing, swipe, tack, take, talk into,
   talk over, talons, tangle, tangle up with, teeth, thieve,
   thoroughly, through and through, toggle, toils, tongue, totally,
   tracery, trap, trawl, trip, turn, unguals, ungulae, uppercut,
   utterly, vault, veer, vertex, vindicated, walk off with, wangle,
   wangle into, wear down, wedge, wholly, win, win over, wind,
   wobbler, yard, yardarm, zag, zig, zigzag, zipper

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

hook n. a software or hardware feature included in order to simplify
   later additions or changes by a user. for example, a simple program that
   prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible
   version would let a variable determine what base to use; setting the
   variable to 5 would make the program print numbers in base 5. the
   variable is a simple hook. an even more flexible program might examine
   the variable and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to use, but
   treat any other number as the address of a user-supplied routine for
   printing a number. this is a hairy but powerful hook; one can then
   write a routine to print numbers as roman numerals, say, or as hebrew
   characters, and plug it into the program through the hook. often the
   difference between a good program and a superb one is that the latter
   has useful hooks in judiciously chosen places. both may do the original
   job about equally well, but the one with the hooks is much more flexible
   for future expansion of capabilities emacs, for example, is _all_
   hooks. the term `user exit' is synonymous but much more formal and less
   hackish.


see also:
hairy emacs 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

hook
     
        ? object oriented kernel.  delphia.  an object-oriented
        extension of delphia prolog.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
jargon file 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

hook
     
         a software or hardware feature included in
        order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
     
        for example, a simple program that prints numbers might always
        print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a
        variable determine what base to use; setting the variable to 5
        would make the program print numbers in base 5.  the variable
        is a simple hook.  an even more flexible program might examine
        the variable and treat a value of 16 or less as the base to
        use, but treat any other number as the address of a
        user-supplied routine for printing a number.  this is a
        hairy but powerful hook; one can then write a routine to
        print numbers as roman numerals, say, or as hebrew characters,
        and plug it into the program through the hook.
     
        often the difference between a good program and a superb one
        is that the latter has useful hooks in judiciously chosen
        places.  both may do the original job about equally well, but
        the one with the hooks is much more flexible for future
        expansion of capabilities.
     
        emacs, for example, is all hooks.
     
        the term "user exit" is synonymous but much more formal and
        less hackish.
     
        1997-06-25
     
     
see also:
software hardware hairy emacs 

[9] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

hook
   1. heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to
   which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them 2
   kings 19:28; isa. 37:28, 29; ezek. 29:4; 38:4. "the orientals
   make use of this contrivance for curbing their
   work-beasts...when a beast becomes unruly they have only to draw
   the cord on one side, which, by stopping his breath, punishes
   him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails not to
   become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it"
   michaelis. so god's agents are never beyond his control.
   
     2. hakkah, a fish "hook" job 41:2, heb. text, 40:25; isa.
   19:8; hab. 1:15.
   
     3. vav, a "peg" on which the curtains of the tabernacle were
   hung ex. 26:32.
   
     4. tsinnah, a fish-hooks amos 4:2.
   
     5. mazleg, flesh-hooks 1 sam. 2:13, 14, a kind of fork
   with three teeth for turning the sacrifices on the fire, etc.
   
     6. mazmeroth, pruning-hooks isa. 2:4; joel 3:10.
   
     7. 'agmon job 41:2, heb. text 40:26, incorrectly rendered
   in the authorized version. properly a rush-rope for binding
   animals, as in revised version margin.
   

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