foot vs hook

foot

noun
  • The bottom edge of a sail. 

  • The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest. 

  • The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. 

  • Travel by walking. 

  • The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. 

  • In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant. 

  • The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. 

  • A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. 

  • The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove. 

  • A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. 

  • A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. 

  • A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. 

  • The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. 

  • Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. 

  • The base or bottom of anything. 

  • The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. 

  • The globular lower domain of a protein. 

  • The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface. 

  • Fundamental principle; basis; plan. 

  • The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it. 

  • Foot soldiers; infantry. 

  • Recognized condition; rank; footing. 

  • The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. 

  • The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked. 

verb
  • To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. 

  • To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip. 

  • To walk. 

  • To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). 

  • To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). 

  • To pay (a bill). 

hook

noun
  • A ship's anchor. 

  • Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour. 

  • 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. 

  • The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns. 

  • Removal or expulsion from a group or activity. 

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

  • A field sown two years in succession. 

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

  • A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. 

  • A ball that is rolled in a curved line. 

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

  • A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j. 

  • A jack (the playing card). 

  • Any of the chevrons denoting rank. 

  • 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. 

  • The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones. 

  • Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”) 

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

  • a háček. 

  • a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc 

  • A finesse. 

  • A curveball. 

  • A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention. 

  • The curved needle used in the art of crochet. 

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

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

  • a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ. 

  • A prostitute. 

  • A snare; a trap. 

  • A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels. 

verb
  • To attach a hook to. 

  • To finesse. 

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

  • To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker). 

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

  • To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook. 

  • To connect (hook into, hook together). 

  • To engage in prostitution. 

  • To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends. 

  • To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook. 

  • To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word. 

  • To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. 

  • To play a hook shot. 

  • To make addicted; to captivate. 

  • To move or go with a sudden turn. 

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

How often have the words foot and hook occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )