[voca.] hook

[우진맘]

hook

(hʊk) 

Word forms: hooks, hooking, hooked

1. countable noun B2

A hook is a bent piece of metal or plastic that is used for catching or holding things, or for hanging things up.

One of his jackets hung from a hook. 

...curtain hooks. 

He felt a fish pull at his hook. 

2. verb

If you hook one thing to another, you attach it there using a hook. If something hooks somewhere, it can be hooked there.

Paul hooked his tractor to the car and pulled it to safety. [V n + to/onto] 

...one of those can openers that hooked onto the wall. [V + onto] 

3. verb

If you hook your arm, leg, or foot round an object, you place it like a hook round the object in order to move it or hold it.

She latched on to his arm, hooking her other arm around a tree. [VERB noun preposition] 

I hooked my left arm over the side of the dinghy. [VERB noun preposition] 

4. verb

If you hook a fish, you catch it with a hook on the end of a line.

At the first cast I hooked a huge fish. [VERB noun] 

5. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN]

A hook is a short sharp blow with your fist that you make with your elbow bent, usually in a boxing match.

He was knocked down by a left hook in the first round. 

6. verb

If you are hooked into something, or hook into something, you get involved with it.

[mainly US]

만일 당신이 어떤 것에 hook 되어 있거나 hook 한다면 당신은 그것에 빠져 있는 것이다

I'm guessing again now because I'm not hooked into the political circles.

 [be/get V-ed + into] 

나는 정치권에 빠져 있지 않기 때문에 이제 그것을 다시 추측한다.

Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you? [VERB + into] 

경력을 쌓고 싶지만 자신에게 맞는 직업을 찾지 못하고 계신가요?

7. verb

If you hook into the internet, you make a connection with the internet on a particular occasion so that you can use it.

...an interactive media tent where people will be able to hook into the internet. [VERB + into] 

Hook up means the same as hook.

It has no mobile connectivity, which means that users must rely on wi-fi to hook up to the internet. [VERB PARTICLE + to]