(n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(3) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(4) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(5) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
(6) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(7) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(8) Golf is a different sport from all others discussed in this issue in one important aspect: Almost all of its practitioners play more, rather than less, as they mature.
(9) The cars are VW Golfs and all I have to do is turn up with my smart card, get in and drive off.
(10) The Maharajas once had private hunting grounds; now executives have golf courses.
(11) The transition temperature has been determined at 38 degrees C for 'Rosa Krone' and at 40 degrees C for the variety 'Golf'.
(12) That we're about to embark on such a spectacle is a gift, considering that the defending Stanley Cup champs from Chicago looked destined for the golf course just days ago.
(13) Read more The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
(14) Three field experiments are reported in which skilled miniature golf players varying in age were studied in three types of activities: training, minor competitions, and large competitions.
(15) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
(16) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
(17) He doesn’t want to get together and make laws because that’s too much work and he wants to get back to playing golf,” Trump said at the time.
(18) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
(19) 8.53pm BST "I'm surprised 'table management' hasn't bled across from golf's 'course management'", volunteers Gary Naylor.
(20) Suharto, meanwhile, claimed to spend his time fishing, playing golf and getting closer to God.
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.