Hook vs Ring - 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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* 2003 , David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of ,
* 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.
(label) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
# A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
# A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
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# (label) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
# A burner on a kitchen stove.
# In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
# An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
# (label) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
(label) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
# A circular group of people or objects.
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, title= # (label) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
# (label) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as (Stonehenge).
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
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An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
* (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
(label) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
(label) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a .
(label) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 168.
(label) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring ).
* 2007 , Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
(label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
Image:JO Atlanta 1996 - Boxe.jpg, A boxing ring .
Image:Finger ring.jpg, A ring on a finger.
Image:Tree rings.jpg, The rings of a tree.
Image:Georges Seurat 019.jpg, The circus ring .
Image:Bird ringing shandong.JPG, A ring on a bird's leg.
Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg, The rings of Saturn.
To surround or enclose.
(figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
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(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
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The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
(colloquial) A telephone call.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
* Francis Bacon
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
* Fuller
Of a bell, to produce sound.
To make (a bell) produce sound.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
(figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
to resound, reverberate, echo.
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* 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :
To produce music with bells.
(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
Image:Latex integers.svg, The ring of integers.
In lang=en terms the difference between hook and ring
is that hook is a jack (the playing card while ring is to repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.In transitive terms the difference between hook and ring
is that hook is to connect (hook into, hook together) while ring is to make (a bell) produce sound.As a proper noun Ring is
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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.
Derived terms
* hooker * hook upring
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
- And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.
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- Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
- the ruling ring at Constantinople
- The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —
- Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.
Synonyms
* (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torusDerived terms
* annual ring * benzene ring * boxing ring * brass ring * bull ring * calamari ring * chainring * circus ring * class ring * claw ring * coffee ring * D ring * diamond ring * division ring * earring * egg ring * engagement ring * enringed * finger ring * Fomalhaut dust ring * front ring * gas ring * growth ring * key ring/keyring * life ring * limbal ring * local ring * mancude-ring system * neck ring * nose ring * O-ring * oath ring * Olympic Rings * onion ring * pinky ring * piscatory ring * piston ring * planetary ring * prize ring * quotient ring * (w, Ring a Ring o' Roses) * ring-a-levio * ring armor * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark * ring-billed * ring binder * ring dance * ring dove/ringdove * ring dropper * ring fence * ring finger/ringfinger * ring game * ringlike * ring mail/ringmail * ring of death * Ring of Fire * ring of steel * ring of truth * ring ouzel * ring parrot * ring plover * ring-porous * ring pull * ring rat * ring road * ring snake * ring spanner * ring species * ring spot * ring stand * ring system * ring-tailed * ring theory * ring thrush * ring toplogy * ringed * ringbearer * ringleader * ringlet * ringlike * ringneck * ring-neck(ed) * ringpiece * ringside * ring spot * ringstraked * ringtail * ring-tail(ed) * ringworm * rubber ring * run rings around * signet ring * seal ring * slip ring * smoke ring * snap ring * spy ring * star ring * synonym ring * teething ring * thumb ring * toe ring * token ring * tongue ring * tree ring * wedding ringSee also
Verb
(en verb)- The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
- We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- to ring a pig's snout
- Ring these fingers.
- .. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..
Derived terms
* ringerEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
- The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
- The name has a nice ring to it.
- I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
- the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
- St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
- as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Derived terms
* give a ring * ringtoneVerb
- The bells were ringing in the town.
- The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
- The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
- Whose mobile phone is ringing ?
- That does not ring true.
- I will ring you when we arrive.
- So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
- It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
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Derived terms
* ring a bell * ring back * ringer * ringing * ring false * ring off * ring off the hook * ring out * ring someone's bell * ring true * ring up * unringEtymology 3
A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)Noun
(en noun)- The set of integers, , is the prototypical ring .
- The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set of even integers to be a ring.
