What's the difference between unfasten and unhook?

Unfasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clip was found to have come unfastened; simple repeat closure was performed.
  • (2) Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Showing off some long-craved organisation and defensive resilience, Sunderland also offered sporadic threats on the break.
  • (3) LTD4 levels in the muscle also increased at the fastened site just before and 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (4) After unfastening, the rabbits showed a gradual decline of blood pressure, and one died 7 hours after unfastening.
  • (5) When I mentioned this , he told me he was planning on having its voice box unfastened so it would not be so annoying, and gave me a wicked smile.
  • (6) On the contrary, LTD4 levels in the blood increased just before and 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (7) I had no arguments with the Sunderland bench, there is nothing else to say, except that it might be the first time I have ever been called soft.” Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Liverpool are at West Ham United on Saturday, where Klopp could have been in the opposing dugout had the London club’s owners had their way in the summer.
  • (8) The amounts of LTB4, LTD4 and LTE4 in the blood and muscle were measured just before unfastening and 3, 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (9) Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling fails to turn up for training, citing illness Read more 2) Indulge in a little bit of misconduct What better way to unfasten yourself from your contract (and sell yourself to new employers) than to stoop to arguably the lowest rank of (un)professionalism: gross misconduct.
  • (10) Leaning down to unfasten the latch brought one into close proximity to the holes on either side of the gate.
  • (11) LTE4 levels in the blood increased 3 hours, and those in the muscle 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (12) To open the gate one had to bend down to unfasten a latch 45 cm above ground level.

Unhook


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without a fresh challenge there is a danger that Paxman will become bored, more guests will unhook their earpieces and ultimately a valuable programme such as Newsnight might disappear from the schedules.
  • (2) To understand the dynamics of the unhooking of U-shaped DNA molecules undergoing gel electrophoresis, we have examined the length changes of the longer and shorter arms of the U-shape as a function of time.
  • (3) Late complications were unhooked Harrington instrumentality (10) cases), fracture of Harrington rods (9), protrusion of upper end of Luque rods (7), breakage of tethering wire (4) and pseudarthrosis (3).
  • (4) Once haemagglutination had occurred, doxycycline can reverse the haemagglutination, "unhooking" the bacteria from the erythrocytes.
  • (5) The interpretation is that the extent of stretch of the spring-like DNA chain decreases as the length difference between the two arms increases during the unhooking processes, and that the frictions at the pivot point can be relatively large depending upon the local structure of the gel.
  • (6) Nine seconds after ignition, a cockpit camera shows Alsbury pushed the lever to unhook the wings.
  • (7) The mechanism of unhooking of the tibial shaft from its junction with the femoral stem during dislocation of the patella is being reconstructed.
  • (8) Vibration was characterized by the unweighted intensity exceeded during 10% of the time (L10) and by the global weighted equivalent intensity (Leqw) during displacement phases and phases involving successive starts and stops or successive hookings and unhookings of the load.

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