Crested vs Hook - What's the difference?

crested | hook |

As verbs the difference between crested and hook

is that crested is (crest) while hook is to attach a hook to.

As an adjective crested

is having a crest, or ornamental tuft (on an animal) or plume (on a helmet).

As a noun 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.

crested

English

Adjective

(-)

Having a crest, or ornamental tuft (on an animal) or plume (on a helmet).

Derived terms

* African crested flycatcher * Antillean crested hummingbird * bar-crested antshrike * big crested mastiff bat * black-crested antshrike * black-crested bulbul * black-crested coquette * black-crested finch * black-crested mangabey * black-crested tit * black-crested titmouse * black-crested warbler * blond-crested woodpecker * blue-crested flycatcher * blue-headed crested-flycatcher * buff-crested buzzard * bushy-crested hornbill * bushy-crested jay * bourbon crested starling * brown-crested flycatcher * Celebes crested macaque * chestnut-crested antbird * chestnut-crested cotinga * chestnut-crested yuhina * Chinese crested dog * Chinese crested tern * Choiseul crested pigeon * cinnamon-crested spadebill * coal-crested finch * comb-crested jacana * creamy-crested spinetail * crested agouti * crested ant tanager * crested argus * crested auklet * crested barbet * crested becard * crested bellbird * crested bellowfish * crested berrypicker * crested black macaque * crested black-tyrant * crested blenny * crested bobwhite * crested bullhead shark * crested bunting * crested caracara * crested cariama * crested coral root * crested coua * crested cuckoo-dove * crested doradito * crested drongo * crested duck * crested eagle * crested finchbill * crested flounder * crested francolin * crested gallito * crested genet * crested goshawk * crested guan * crested guineafowl * crested hawk-eagle * crested hornero * crested ibis * crested iris * crested kingfisher * crested lizard * crested lark * crested malimbe * crested mangabey * curl-crested manucode * crested mona monkey * crested myna * crested oropendola * crested owl * crested partridge * crested penguin * crested pigeon * crested pitohui * crested porcupine * crested quail-dove * crested quetzal * crested roundleaf bat * crested screamer * crested serpent eagle * crested servaline genet * crested shelduck * crested shrike-tit * crested spinetail * crested starling * crested swift * crested-tail deermouse * crested tit * crested tit-warbler * crested toad * crested treeswift * crested weedfish * crested white-eye * crested wheat grass * crested wood-partridge * crimson-crested woodpecker * curl-crested aracari * curl-crested jay * curl-crested toucan * Danube crested newt * double-crested cormorant * double crested toad * dusky crested-flycatcher * eastern black crested gibbon * eastern crested toad * elegant crested tinamou * erect-crested penguin * Fiji crested iguana * flame-crested manakin * flame-crested tanager * fulvous-crested tanager * giant crested newt * great crested flycatcher * great crested grebe * great crested newt * greater crested tern * grey-crested finch * grey-crested helmet-shrike * grey-crested tit * golden-crested myna * Hainan black crested gibbon * hair-crested drongo * hairy-crested antbird * Italian crested newt * large-crested toad * lesser crested tern * long-crested eagle * long-crested myna * long-crested pygmy-tyrant * Madagascar crested ibis * New Caledonian crested gecko * plush-crested jay * pale-crested woodpecker * Patagonian crested duck * pied-crested tit-tyrant * plain-crested elaenia * Puero Rican crested anole * Puerto Rican crested toad * purple-crested turaco * Quebracho crested tinamou * red-crested bustard * red-crested cardinal * red-crested cotinga * red-crested finch * red-crested malkoha * red-crested pochard * red-crested turaco * rufous-crested coquette * rufous-crested tanager * saffron-crested tyrant-manakin * scale-crested pygmy-tyrant * short-crested coquette * short-crested flycatcher * short-crested monarch * southern crested newt * Sulawesi crested macaque * sulfur-crested cockatoo * white-bellied crested-flycatcher * white-crested bittern * white-crested coquette * white-crested elaenia * white-crested guan * white-crested hornbill * white-crested Kalij pheasant * white-crested laughingthrush * white-crested spadebill * white-crested turaco * white-crested tyrannulet * white-tailed crested-flycatcher * wire-crested thorntail * yellow-cheeked crested gibbon * yellow-crested cockato * yellow-crested helmet-shrike * yellow-crested manakin * yellow-crested tanager

Verb

(head)

(crest)

hook

English

(wikipedia hook)

Noun

(en noun)

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

* Alexander Pope

like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook

* 1819 , Keats,

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;

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.

The song's hook snared me.

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.

He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook .

(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.

He threw a hook in the dirt.

(software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.

''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.

(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.

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

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, year=2011 , date=December 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.}}

(slang) A jack (the playing card)

(typography, rare) A .

* 2003 , Language Issues XV–XVIII, page 36

Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook' ? (as in ha'''?'''ek – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robi' ? – Polish for ‘do/make’).

* 2003 , David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of , page 168

In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ?, called ha?ek or “hook .”

* 2004 , Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown

In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to ?esko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.

(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.

(Shakespeare)

A field sown two years in succession.

(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

Derived terms

* by hook or by crook * grappling hook * * hook shot * on the hook

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

(en verb)

To attach a hook to.

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.

She's only here to try to hook a husband.

A free trial is a good way to hook customers.

(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.

To connect (hook into'', ''hook together ).

If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

(Usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked .

(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)

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

(soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

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, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.}}

(slang) To engage in prostitution.

I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

(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.

Derived terms

* hooker * hook up