(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.
Prostitution
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
(n.) The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(3) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(4) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(5) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(6) These results show that in Nairobi prostitutes are a readily identifiable group of high-frequency transmitters of gonococcal infection.
(7) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(8) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(9) The city, which only allows prostitution in certain areas, also plans to spend SFr700,000 a year to keep the sex boxes running.
(10) Window prostitutes are at higher risk than club prostitutes.
(11) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(12) Two seropositive prostitutes had IgM hepatitis B core antibody suggesting recent infection.
(13) Serological results were correlated with history of intravenous drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homosexuality or prostitution (high-risk groups), and duration and number of internments.
(14) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(15) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(16) The difference in the incidence of ASA between controls (5%) and the prostitutes (43.1%) was highly significant (p less than 0.01).
(17) The increasing number of HIV infected patients in the Netherlands living outside of Amsterdam, would appear to urge more education of psychiatric and other health care professionals concerning specific aspects of HIV infection, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse.
(18) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(19) The article first reviews the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among prostitutes.
(20) These prostitutes represented a reservoir for STDs including HIV.