Hook vs Lock - What's the difference?

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Hook is a related term of lock.

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.

As a verb hook

is to attach a hook to.

As a proper noun lock is

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.

* {{quote-news

, 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.

* {{quote-news

, 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

lock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

"Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.

*, chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock .}}

A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

* 2005 , Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster

the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.

* 1846 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock .

The firing mechanism of a gun.

* 1837 , (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)

"I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock , as if that would do any good.

Complete control over a situation.

* 2003 , (Charley Rosen), The Wizard of Odds

Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

Something sure to be a success.

* 2004 , (Avery Corman), A perfect divorce

Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

(label) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=Septembe 24, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , passage=Ashton only had to wait three minutes for his second try, lock Louis Deacon setting it up with a rollocking line-break, before Romania got on the scoreboard courtesy of a penalty from fly-half Marin Danut Dumbrava. }}

A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

* (Thomas De Quincey) (1785-1859)

Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(Dryden)

A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

A grapple in wrestling.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* alcolock * ankle lock * anti-lock * caps lock * flash lock * flat lock * flintlock * genlock * gridlock * leglock * liplock * lockfast * lock time * * lockbox * lockmaster * locknote * locksmithing * lockstep * matchlock * num lock * overlock * padlock * picklock * scroll lock * staircase lock * tide lock * time lock

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To become fastened in place.

*, chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked , of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}

(label) To fasten with a lock.

(label) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

(label) To intertwine or dovetail.

To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

To furnish (a canal) with locks.

To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

Antonyms

* unlock

Derived terms

* lock and load * lock horns * lock in * lock lips * lock on * lock out * lock up * lockable * relock * unlockable

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m). Cognate with (etyl) (m) (whence (etyl) (m)), (etyl) (m). It has been theorised that the word may be related to the (etyl) verb in its ancient meaning to curb .

Noun

(en noun)

tuft or length of hair

If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?

Derived terms

* daglock * elflock * forelock * goldilocks * sidelock

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