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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(transitive) To attach a hook to. / (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish). / (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

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Source Word

hook

IPA(Pronunciation)

/hʊk/

Verb

transitive UK US archaic slang passive regional intransitive

(transitive) To attach a hook to. / (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish). / (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

Japanese Meaning

～にフックを取り付ける / フックを使って（魚などを）捕まえる / フックを用いてかぎ編みをする

What is this buttons?

Please hook the tapestry to the wall before the guests arrive.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ゲストが来る前に、タペストリーにフックを取り付けて壁に掛けてください。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To attach a hook to.

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

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Sense（5）

(transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

She's only here to try to hook a husband.

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Sense（6）

(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.

Sense（7）

(transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).

If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

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Sense（8）

(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

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Sense（9）

(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.

Sense（10）

(rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

Sense（11）

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

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Sense（12）

(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.

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Sense（13）

(intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.

Sense（14）

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

Sense（15）

(bridge, slang) To finesse.

Sense（16）

(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

Sense（17）

(intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

hooks

（ present singular third-person ）

hooking

（ participle present ）

hooked

（ participle past ）

hooked

（ past ）

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