(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.
Ripper
Definition:
(n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
(n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
(n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
(n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the moors murderer Ian Brady; the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; Rosemary West; and Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of murdering Milly Dowler.
(2) Like Jack the Ripper, the killer who is his closest comparison, it was as if he was invisible.
(3) The Guardian has previously identified other suspected targets of Rees, including Eric Clapton , Mick Jagger, George Michael, Linford Christie, Gary Lineker, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, and the family of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(4) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(5) Lukas Podolski was the fringe player who grasped the opportunity most clearly and the opening goal was one of his trademarks – a left-footer ripper into the near, top corner of Sinan Bolat’s net, following Ramsey’s burst and pass.
(6) West Australian Labor shadow cabinet calls for Stephen Smith's withdrawal Read more The 48-year-old was elected to the leadership following the resignation of Eric Ripper in January 2012 and led the party to the 2013 election, scoring points with policies like Metronet , a $3.8b plan to expand the suburban rail network, before ultimately losing to Colin Barnett.
(7) They mix fact and fiction, delving into child murders and police corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry, the Silver Jubilee and the political tensions of the early Thatcher years.
(8) And it is not the first time that Amazon has looked to the BBC – the internet firm resurrected BBC1’s period crime drama, Ripper Street, after it was axed.
(9) It also revealed that the TV star had offered his services as an "intermediary" in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(10) Ripper Street was axed by BBC1 after last year's second series, but won a reprieve after Amazon stepped in to fund a third run, which will premiere on its Prime Instant video-on-demand service before a BBC1 repeat.
(11) Sonia Sutcliffe v News of the World, 1990 The wife of the Yorkshire Ripper lost her libel claim over News of the World allegations that she had an affair with a Greek holiday company chief who resembled her husband During the hearing, Carman claimed she had courted the press for financial gain before listing the £334,000 damages she had obtained in actions against newspapers.
(12) A trawl of police records also found that Savile had offered his services as an "intermediary" to detectives in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(13) A BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC is looking at partnerships that could enable Ripper Street to return but at better value to licence fee payers."
(14) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fisher ladies in Okinawa, Japan You can almost see such calculations running through the Big Ripper as she pores over her MRI results, designed to find out whether her organs are ageing at the same rate as the rest of her.
(16) I don’t think anybody in the area is against enterprise and somebody doing something new and exciting, but Jack the Ripper has nothing to do with Cable Street.
(17) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .
(18) I don’t want to have to explain to my teenage daughter that this man butchered women and ripped out their wombs.” Palmer-Edgecumbe told the Evening Standard that he planned to open a museum about the social history of women, but that as the project developed he decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
(19) Before long, Jean Paul Goude will have dismembered more women than Jack the Ripper.
(20) In 1992 his 10-piece graduate collection – bought in its entirety by Vogue stylist Isabella Blow, his first patron – was entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, inspired by Victorian London and with a strong emphasis on tailoring.