Hook vs Put - What's the difference?
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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
* 1819 , Keats,
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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* 2004 , Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii,
(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.
To place something somewhere.
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(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
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 an acronym put is
(software|testing).As an initialism put is
(electronics).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”.
- (Shakespeare)
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.
Derived terms
* hooker * hook upput
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.