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hook
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- pronunciation:
- hUk
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A hook is a curved piece of metal or plastic. You hang clothes and other things on a hook. Hooks are also used for holding or pulling things.
Alexis hangs her bathrobe on a hook on the back of her bedroom door.My mom hung a new picture of our family on the hook over the fireplace.
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| definition 2: |
A hook is a curved piece of metal that has a sharp point on one end. It is used to catch fish.
When we went fishing, my father told me to be careful when I put the worm on the hook.
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| related words: |
bend, buckle, catch, clasp, claw, latch |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
hooks, hooking, hooked |
| definition 1: |
When you hook something, you hold, hang, or pull it with a hook.
Maya hooked her bathrobe on the back of the door. |
| definition 2: |
When you hook a fish, you catch it with a hook.
I couldn't believe it when my little brother hooked a fish while he was standing on the dock. |
| definition 3: |
When a road hooks toward a certain direction, it means that it bends sharply toward that direction.
Slow down! The road hooks to the right up here. |
| definition 4: |
When a ball hooks, it means that it curves either to the left or the right sometime after it is thrown or hit.
Usually she throws straight, but this time her ball hooked. |
| related words: |
anchor, bend, bind, buckle, grab, hang |
| derivations: |
hookless (adj.), hooklike (adj.) |
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