Crux vs Crook - What's the difference?
crux | crook |
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
* 1993 , Laurence M. Porter, "Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature", pages 32-47 in'' Carol Schreier Rupprecht (ed.) ''The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language .
A puzzle or difficulty.
The hardest point of a climb.
* 1973 , Pat Armstrong, "Klondike Fever: Seventy Years Too Late", in Backpacker , Autumn 1973, page 84:
* 2004 , Craig Luebben, Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills , The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898867435,
* 2009 , R. J. Secor, The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails , Third Edition, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898869712,
(heraldiccharge) A cross on a coat of arms.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
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*(Thomas Phaer) (c.1510-1560)
*:through lanes, and crooks , and darkness
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the 'crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) A lock or curl of hair.
(lb) A gibbet.
(lb) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
*1970 , The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition'', published 1976, Oxford University Press, ''Psalms 23-4, p.583:
*:Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
A bishop's staff of office.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
*(Thomas Cranmer) (1489-1556)
*:for all your brags, hooks, and crooks
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
*1973 November 17, (Richard Nixon), reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post'',
*:"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook'. Well, I?m not a ' crook . I?ve earned everything I?ve got."
A pothook.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:as black as the crook
(lb) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
To bend.
* Shakespeare
* 1917 , , Part 4, Chapter 5,
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
* Ascham
* Francis Bacon
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
* 2004 , , A Cry from the Dark ,
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
* 2006 , Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt ,
* 2007 , Jo Wainer, Bess'', ''Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories ,
* 2007 , Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don?t Take Your Love to Town ,
* 2009 , Carolyn Landon, Cups With No Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist ,
As a proper noun crux
is (constellation) a distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross it appears in the flags of several countries in oceania.As a noun crook is
a bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.As a verb crook is
to bend.As an adjective crook is
(australia|new zealand|slang) bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.crux
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
- The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
- The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. — Strauss.
- The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
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- Most pitches have a distinct crux', or tough spot; some have multiple '''cruxes'''. ¶ Climb efficiently on the "cruiser" sections to stay fresh for the ' cruxes .
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- Continue climbing the groove; the crux is passing some vegetation on the second pitch.
crook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) croke, crok, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)''Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’,
Synonyms
* (criminal) SeeDerived terms
* by hook or by crook * by hook or crook (US)Verb
(en verb)- He crooked his finger toward me.
- Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
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- There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawful games.
- Whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
Derived terms
* crooked (adjective)Etymology 2
From .Australian National Dictionary Centre Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » C
Adjective
(en adjective)- That work you did on my car is crook , mate
- Not turning up for training was pretty crook .
- Things are crook at Tallarook.
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- “Things are crook at home at the moment.”
- “They?re always crook at my home.”
- I?m feeling a bit crook .
- be crook''' at/about''; ''go '''crook at
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- Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
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- I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.
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- I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.
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- Mum went crook at me for wasting money, but when Don got a job and spent all his money on a racing bike, she didn?t say a thing to him.