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| hook | |
| 1. sost. uncino, gancio | |
| 2. verb. agganciare | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| hook | |
| 1. subst. a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment |  |
| 2. subst. a fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing | |
| 3. subst. any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook | |
| 4. subst. (informal) a ship's anchor | |
| 5. subst. the curved needle used in the art of crochet | |
| 6. subst. the part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns | |
| 7. subst. a loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j | |
| 8. subst. (music) a catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song | |
| The song's hook snared me. | |
| 9. subst. (authorship) 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 | |
| 10. subst. (authorship) a gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention | |
| 11. subst. a tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely | |
| 12. subst. (informal) removal or expulsion from a group or activity | |
| He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook. | |
| 13. subst. (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 | |
| 14. subst. (baseball) a curveball | |
| He threw a hook in the dirt. | |
| 15. subst. (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 a | |
| 16. subst. (golf) a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade | |
| 17. subst. (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-throug | |
| 18. subst. (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. | |
| 19. subst. (slang) A jack (the playing card) | |
| 20. subst. (typography, rare) a háček. | |
| 21. subst. (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 | |
| 22. subst. (bowling) a ball that is rolled in a curved line | |
| 23. subst. (bridge, slang) a finesse | |
| 24. subst. a snare; a trap | |
| 25. subst. a field sown two years in succession | |
| 26. subst. (in the plural) the projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones | |
| 27. subst. (geography) a spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey | |
| 28. v. To attach a hook to. | |
| Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away. | |
| 29. v. To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | |
| He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water. | |
| 30. v. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. | |
| 31. v. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook. | |
| He hooked his fingers through his belt loops. | |
| 32. v. 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. | |
| 33. v. (US) To steal. | |
| 34. v. To connect (hook into, hook together). | |
| If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network. | |
| 35. v. (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. | |
| 36. v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot. | |
| 37. v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker). | |
| 38. v. (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. | |
| 39. v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends. | |
| 40. v. (intransitive, 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. | |
| 41. v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word. | |
| 42. v. (bridge, slang) To finesse. | |
| 43. v. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. | |
| 44. v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| gancio | |
| 1. subst. hook (all senses) | |
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