Bar vs Hook - What's the difference?
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A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A' into ' ? .)
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
The counter of such a premises.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
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(computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(UK, legal) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
The Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
(soccer) The crossbar
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(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
(nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
A city gate, in some British place names.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
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To prohibit.
To lock or bolt with a bar.
to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe
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(horse racing)
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
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That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g'' and ''j .
A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
(informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
(baseball) A curveball.
(software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.
(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
(basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
(boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc.
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(slang) A jack (the playing card)
(typography, rare) A .
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(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
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(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
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(bridge, slang) A finesse.
A snare; a trap.
A field sown two years in succession.
(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
To attach a hook to.
To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
To connect (hook into'', ''hook together ).
(Usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
(soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
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(slang) To engage in prostitution.
(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
(bridge, slang) To finesse.
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
Bar is a related term of hook.
As nouns the difference between bar and hook
is that bar is bar while hook is a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.As a verb hook is
to attach a hook to.bar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.Noun
- The window was protected by steel bars .
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
- We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- a bar''' of light; a '''bar of colour
- The street was lined with all-night bars .
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
- The club has lifted its bar on women members.
- Must I new bars to my own joy create?
- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .
- He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
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- There were no bars so I didn't get your text.
- Potter's Bar
Synonyms
* (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages) barroom, ginshop, pub (British ), public house, tavern * (official order prohibiting some activity) ban, prohibition * measure * See alsoDerived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * barring * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * disbar, disbarment * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *See also
* (heraldry)Verb
(barr)- But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
- Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
- Then look for me by moonlight,
- Watch for me by moonlight,
- I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way."
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred .
- bar the door
- I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
Synonyms
* (obstruct) block, hinder, obstruct * (prohibit) ban, interdict, prohibit * (lock or bolt with a bar) * See alsoDerived terms
* *Preposition
(English prepositions)- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar .
Synonyms
* apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, saveDerived terms
* *References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) , coined circa 1900.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* * *Anagrams
*hook
English
(wikipedia hook)Noun
(en noun)- like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook
- Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
- Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
- Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers;
- The song's hook snared me.
- He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook .
- He threw a hook in the dirt.
- ''We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward and forward compatible to future versions of the standard.
- The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
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- Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook' ? (as in ha'''?'''ek – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robi' ? – Polish for ‘do/make’).
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- In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ?, called ha?ek or “hook .”
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- In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to ?esko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
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Derived terms
* by hook or by crook * grappling hook * * hook shot * on the hookReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
- He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
- She's only here to try to hook a husband.
- A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
- If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
- He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
- I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked .
- The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
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- I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.