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Hoo


Definition:

  • (interj.) See Ho.
  • (interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
  • (4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
  • (5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
  • (6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
  • (7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
  • (8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
  • (9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
  • (10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
  • (11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
  • (12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
  • (13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
  • (14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
  • (15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
  • (16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
  • (17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
  • (18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
  • (19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
  • (20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.

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.

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