To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
To attach a hook to.
To finesse.
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.
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.
A ship's anchor.
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.
To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
To accept (zero or more arguments).
To seize or capture.
To remove.
To go.
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
To proceed to fill.
To participate in.
To let in (water).
To move into.
To assume (a form).
To go into, through, or along.
To apply oneself to the study of.
To deal with.
To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
To have sex with.
To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
To experience or feel.
To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
An intensifier.
To require.
To fill, to use up (time or space).
To avail oneself of.
To escort or conduct (a person).
To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
To receive into some relationship.
To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
To catch; to engage.
To grasp or grip.
To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
To exact.
To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
To remove or end by death; to kill.
To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
To believe, to accept the statements of.
To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
To subtract.
To bind oneself by.
To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
To perform (a role).
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
To accept and follow (advice, etc).
To use as a means of transportation.
To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
To select or choose; to pick.
To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
To have the intended effect.
To regard in a specified way.
To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
To adopt (select) as one's own.
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
To adhere or be absorbed properly.
To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
To understand (especially in a specified way).
To have and use one's recourse to.
A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
The or an act of taking.
A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.