What's the difference between fade and hook?

Fade


Definition:

  • (a.) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
  • (a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
  • (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
  • (a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
  • (v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
  • (2) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (3) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (4) Suppression of fluorescence fading, or at least a marked reduction, is also obtained.
  • (5) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
  • (6) 4-Aminopyridine increased the maximum values of both responses, and it increased the fade of the chronotropic response but not that of the inotropic response.
  • (7) In the individual woman, the effect seems to be cumulative and long lasting but fades with age.
  • (8) Illumination does not seem to impair cell function and the fluorescence does not show any sign of fading over observation times of 20 min or greater.
  • (9) Salmonella has come down and our problem now is campylobacter; but one form of bad news fading only to be replaced by new bad news is hardly progress.
  • (10) The Gunners finished four points behind Manchester United, after fading badly in the last months of the campaign.
  • (11) The observation was made that the expressivity of the disease was fading: while there were 15 PPK patients among the 25 investigated members in the generations II and III, there were only 2 patients among 22 members in the generations IV and V. In addition to PPK incontinentia pigmenti was diagnosed in two instances and pollex duplex in one.
  • (12) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
  • (13) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
  • (14) These agents are able to eliminate C. pyloridis from gastric epithelium and to fade away the gastritis.
  • (15) Clinical fading was observed in STS-treated vessels at 10 days postinjection.
  • (16) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
  • (17) It was concluded that atracurium produces a profound tetanic fade, with respect to its effect on twitch or tetanic tension, suggesting that the drug is a potent neuromuscular blocker, with rapid onset of blockade.
  • (18) The traditional philosophy that all sexual intercourse should serve potential procreation is fading.
  • (19) The millisecond fading phenomenon occurred in all the fluorophores studied except Fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated IgG.
  • (20) We show that the dependence of x on the history of the environment can be calculated explicitly and has certain properties of "fading memory"; i.e., environmental events that occurred in the remote past have less effect upon the present abundance than comparable events in the recent past.

Hook


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  • (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
  • (n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
  • (n.) A snare; a trap.
  • (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
  • (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  • (v. t.) To steal.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
  • (2) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (3) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
  • (4) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
  • (5) I had told Chris that I would need an electric hook-up and told him about my predicament.
  • (6) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (7) It’s the young Brazilian’s last heavy touch of the evening: he’s hooked for Sterling.
  • (8) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
  • (9) Within the enamel department, workers who handled conveyer hooks used to suspend range tops as they passed through the oven were at greatest risk (rate ratio (RR) = 12.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.90-53.35).
  • (10) As committee member Tom Watson observed once the protester was arrested and normal service was resumed: "Mr Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook."
  • (11) Rhinonastes n. gen. is proposed for species possessing a dextroventral genital pore, a bilobed testis, a ventral C-shaped ovary lying between the 2 testicular lobes, and a disc-shaped haptor armed with a ventral anchor-bar complex and 14 hooks.
  • (12) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
  • (13) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
  • (14) Once established, an excision of the hook is usually necessary to resolve the discomfort.
  • (15) This species can easily be separated from other Trichocephaloidis by the structure of bifid rostellum and the length of Hooks (70-77 mu).
  • (16) Hook protein and flagellin, which occupy virtually identical helical lattices, did not resemble each other strongly but showed some limited similarities near their termini.
  • (17) She thought it was going out but it landed in - she hooked it back and Sharapova netted an easy forehand!
  • (18) In a joint report , seven anti-tobacco organisations said PMI is trying to recruit a new generation of youngsters, many of whom risk becoming hooked on tobacco for life.
  • (19) In these mutants, hooks and filaments are occasionally assembled onto these incomplete basal bodies.
  • (20) Canelo throws a huge right hook, but it only connects with the ropes as Mayweather dances away.