Hook vs Twist - What's the difference?

Hook is a related term of twist.

As nouns the difference between hook and twist

is that 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 while twist is twist.

As a verb hook

is to attach a hook to.

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

twist

English

(wikipedia twist)

Noun

(en noun)

A twisting force.

Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

* 1906 , (Edith Nesbit), (The Railway Children) Chapter 8

Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.

"I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.

"That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist'—not a hard one—but still a ' twist .

* Addison

Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.

The form given in twisting.

* Arbuthnot

[He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist .

The degree of stress or strain when twisted.

A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:

the thrid / By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, / That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, / With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine [...].

A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.

* 2005 , Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny

Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist , and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.

A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.

* 1899 , Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods

But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.

An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.

* {{quote-news, 1987, October 23, Caryn James, Movie Review: No Man's Land (1987), New York Times

, passage=Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist , but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}

A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See

* {{quote-news, 1997, April 22, Jennifer Dunning, Surviving It All, Dismissals, Tours and Balanchine, New York Times

, passage=She taught him to do the twist , having learned it herself from an Alvin Ailey dancer at Jacob's Pillow. }}

A rotation of the body when diving.

A sprain, especially to the ankle.

(obsolete) A twig.

(Chaucer)

(Fairfax)

(slang) A girl, a woman.

* 1990 , (w, Miller's Crossing), 01:08:20

(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"

(obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.

A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.

The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

(obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.

Descendants

* German: (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

To join together by twining one part around another.

* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 15

"Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted , so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

* Alexander Pope

Twist it into a serpentine form.

To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

* Waller

longing to twist bays with that ivy

* T. Burnet

There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.

(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.

Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

To turn a knob etc.

To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

* Exodus 23:8

And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous.

To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

* 1913 , (George Bernard Shaw), Act V

Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.

* 1901 , (Henry Lawson), Joe Wilson's Courtship

Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.

‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.

(of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

* , chapter=1

* 1926 , , He

My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.

To cause to rotate.

* 1911 , (John Masefield), Jim Davis Chapter 8

The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.

To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

To coax.

* 1932 , Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai

"On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

Antonyms

: stick; stay

Derived terms

(terms derived from the noun and verb "twist") * French twist * get one's knickers in a twist * intertwist * nontwist * overtwist * plot twist * retwist * round the twist * supertwist * twist and turn * twist around * twist drill * twist grip * twist in the wind * twist of fate * twist off * twist someone's arm * twist someone's balls * twist up * twistable * twister * twistfree * twistical * twistwood * twisty * undertwist * untwist

Anagrams

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