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   hook

   /hʊk/

   noun

   • 1. a piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on: "a picture hook" Similar pegholderfastenerfasteningcatchclasphaspclippinbucklehook and eyefibula
   • ▪ a bent piece of metal, typically barbed and baited, for catching fish. Similar fish hookbarbsnaretrap
   • ▪ a cradle on which a phone receiver rests.
   • 2. a thing designed to catch people's attention: "companies are looking for a sales hook"
   • ▪ a catchy chorus or repeated instrumental passage in a piece of popular music: "strong, funky vocals with a hook that gets into your head"
   • 3. a curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing. Similar billhookscythesickle
   • 4. a short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing: "a perfectly timed right hook to the chin" Similar punchblowhitboxcuffthumpsmackcrackknockthwackskelpinformal:beltbopbiffsockcloutwhackwallopplugslugwhopsloshdotboffdong
   • ▪ a stroke made to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height.
   • ▪ a stroke that makes the ball deviate in flight in the direction of the follow-through (from right to left for a right-handed player), typically inadvertently.
   • 5. a curved stroke in handwriting.
   • ▪ an added stroke transverse to the stem in the symbol for a quaver or other note.
   • 6. a curved promontory or sand spit.

   verb

   • 1. attach or fasten with a hook or hooks: "the truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate" Similar attachfixhitchfastensecureclasparchaic:haspgrappleOpposite unhitch
   • ▪ bend into the shape of a hook so as to fasten around or to an object: "he hooked his thumbs in his belt" Similar curlbendcrookloopanglecurve
   • 2. catch with a hook: "he hooked a 24 lb pike" Similar catchtakelandnetbagsnareensnaretrapentrapOpposite release
   • ▪ steal: archaic, informal "a maid hooked one of her mistress's dresses"
   • 3. attract and hold the attention of; captivate: informal "I was hooked by John's radical zeal"
   • 4. hit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke.
   • ▪ strike (the ball) so that it deviates in the direction of the follow-through, typically inadvertently.
   • ▪ punch one's opponent with the elbow bent and rigid: "McKenzie switched his attack downstairs, hooking to the ribs"
   • ▪ use one's stick to restrain (an opponent), for which a penalty may be assessed: "the defenceman hooked him from behind"
   • 5. secure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum.

   Word Origin Old Englishhōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hookless adjective
   • 2. hooklet noun
   • 3. hooklike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 467557What is meant by the term "hook" in programming?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 467557

   Jan 21, 2009 · A hook is what allows executing custom code (function) either before, after, or instead of already existing core code. A hook is a functionality provided by a software for users of that software making it possible to execute their own code under certain during execution of the software occurring circumstances.

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 7285549What is a "hook" and how can I write one in Java? And how to ...

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 7285549

   Sep 9, 2011 · A hook is a method of interposing a piece of code in front of another piece of code, so that the first piece of code executes before the second piece of code, giving the first piece of code an opportunity to monitor and/or filter the behavior of the second piece of code.

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3462955Putting Git hooks into a repository - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 3462955

   1. Here's a script, add-git-hook.sh, which you can ship as a regular file in the repository and can be executed to append the Git hook to the script file. Adjust which hook to use (pre-commit, post-commit, pre-push, etc.) and the definition of the hook in the cat heredoc. # Adds the git-hook described below.

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 7986139Git error when trying to push -- pre-receive hook declined

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 7986139

   Aug 9, 2016 · Basically validating the push. To resolve it, I removed the last commit using: git reset --soft HEAD~1. I then excluded the file from the commit. Note: Use HEAD~N to go back to N number of previous commits. (i.e. 3, 4) Always use the --soft switch to maintain changes in the folder. edited Dec 26, 2022 at 23:47.

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 9102814c# - How to hook an application? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 9102814

   If the application installs a hook procedure for a thread of a different application, the procedure must be in a DLL. (Documentation of SetWindowsHookEx) Scope: Global. To install a global hook, a hook must have a native DLL export to inject itself in another process that requires a valid, consistent function to call into.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 4309607What's the preferred way to implement a hook or callback in...

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 4309607

   Dec 6, 2010 · Decorating a function with @delegate allows other functions to be "attached" to it. @delegate. def intfactory(num): return int(num) Functions can be added to the delegate with += (and removed with -=). You can also decorate with funcname.callback to add a callback function. @intfactory.callback.

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 67827350reactjs - Calling a React hook conditionally - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 67827350

   Jun 3, 2021 · React basically knows which useEffect hook is which, by counting invocations. Calling useEffect conditionally is bad, specifically because the amount of times useEffect gets called cannot change. Your example is conditional, but React can't detect it because in either condition you call it once.

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 40290030How to write generic hook for functions in C? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 40290030

   Oct 27, 2016 · I want to write a hook function that is called whenever a function is called in my program to gather some statistics about the arguments of the function.

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 55757761reactjs - Handle an input with React hooks - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 55757761

    Apr 22, 2019 · Yes you can handle react hooks with useState() import React, {useState} from 'react' export default => { const [fName, setfName] = useState(''); const [lName ...

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 28318599Git push error pre-receive hook declined - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 28318599

    Feb 4, 2015 · [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) its beacuse master is protected, you can do 2 steps. To remove the protection, follow these steps – Go to project Settings. Click on Repository tab. Open Protected Branches. Find your master branch and click on Unprotect. Or else. We can switch branches from master to main. git ...