Angular and Hook

adjective

• Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
  • usage: "angular momentum"
• Having angles or an angular shape.
  • synonyms: angulate

• (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
• (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
• (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
• (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

noun

• A catch for locking a door.
• A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.
  • synonyms: crotchet
• Anything that serves as an enticement.
  • synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener
• A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.
  • synonyms: claw
• A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.
• A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
  • synonyms: draw, hooking
• A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.
• A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket.
  • synonyms: hook shot

verb

• Fasten with a hook.
• Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
  • synonyms: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob
• Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • usage: "She sat there crocheting all day"
  • synonyms: crochet
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
• Take by theft.
  • usage: "Someone snitched my wallet"
  • synonyms: snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
• Hit with a hook.
  • usage: "His opponent hooked him badly"
• Catch with a hook.
  • usage: "hook a fish"
• To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug.
  • synonyms: addict
• Secure with the foot.
  • usage: "hook the ball"
• Entice and trap.
  • usage: "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
  • synonyms: snare
• Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
  • usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
  • synonyms: solicit, accost

• (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• (n.) A piece of metal or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
• (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
• (n.) A snare; a trap.
• (v.t.) To steal.
• (v.t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
• (n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
• (v.i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
• (v.t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture or hold, as with a hook, especially with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
• (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
• (n.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook.
• (v.i.) To move or go with a sudden turn;.
• (v.i.) to make off; to clear out; -- often with it.