hook vs take

hook

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

take

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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