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    indentation, which serves to grab, latch or in any way attach itself onto another object. The hook's design allows traction forces to be relayed through the...
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  • In telephony, on-hook and off-hook are two states of a communication circuit. On subscriber telephones the states are produced by placing the handset onto...
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    A hook echo is a pendant or hook-shaped weather radar signature as part of some supercell thunderstorms. It is found in the lower portions of a storm as...
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  • Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams...
    52 KB (5,052 words) - 02:21, 8 December 2024
  • In computer programming, the term hooking covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications,...
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    The Hook, or the Hookman, is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. In many versions of...
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    On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old...
    217 KB (17,965 words) - 21:20, 14 December 2024
  • Hooks may refer to: United States Hooks, Alabama, an unincorporated community Hooks, Texas, a city Hooks Island, an island, New York Hooks (surname) Hooks...
    837 bytes (135 words) - 15:43, 3 December 2022
  • Catherine Hook (born 21 April 1995) is an American actress and singer. Her films include The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). On television...
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  • The cro-hook, is a special double-ended crochet hook used to make double-sided crochet. It employs the use of a long double-ended hook, which permits the...
    2 KB (172 words) - 05:36, 23 November 2024
  • A crochet hook (or crochet needle) is an implement used to make loops in thread or yarn and to interlock them into crochet stitches. It is a round shaft...
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    hook is any hook normally used in butcheries to hang meat. This form of hook is a variation on the classic S hook. An S-shaped hook or jointed hook is...
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    the bassists for Peter Hook & The Light. Hook was born Peter Woodhead on 13 February 1956, in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, to Irene (née Acton; 1928–2000)...
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    other symbols. The palatal hook (◌̡) is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent palatalized and prevelar...
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  • shovel hook or upper-hook; they are body punches that combine characteristics of both the hook and the uppercut. Another variation on the hook is the...
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    Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which...
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  • free dictionary. Hook-up has several meanings: Making a connection between components in a system An electrical connector A connection to water, sewer, or...
    897 bytes (149 words) - 02:40, 12 November 2023
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    Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (shortened to Dr. Hook in 1975) is an American rock band formed in Union City, New Jersey. The band had commercial success...
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    A fish hook or fishhook, formerly also called an angle (from Old English angol and Proto-Germanic *angulaz), is a hook used to catch fish either by piercing...
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  • A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the...
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