hook
Hook denotes:
- Hook (device) , component, or tool used to attach loads
- Fishing hook , for fishing
- Rock hook , a safety device in climbing and mountain sports
- Hooks (boxes) , a punching technique in boxing
- Checkmark (character) , a written symbol to indicate something that has been done or something that is correct
- Hook (diacritical mark) , a diacritical mark
- Hooks (band) , an English progressive metal band
- Retractors , surgical instruments for keeping the surgical field open
- (21403) Hook , an asteroid
- a tool for non-destructive lock opening, see lock picking
- Sandhaken, a tongue of land in the sea formed by the washing up of sand, see Spit
- a rule violation in ice hockey
- the canines of the female wild boar (brooks), see weapon
- an old square measure, see Socha (unit)
- Storm hook_ (tool)
- Grappling hook
Hook is the family name of the following people:
- Bruno Nelissen-Haken (1901–1975), German writer
- Christian Wilhelm Haken (1723–1791), German Protestant pastor and author of historical treatises on Pomerania
- Hermann Haken (politician) (1828–1916), German lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Stettin
- Hermann Haken (physicist) (* 1927), German physicist
- Jan Haken (1912–1956), Dutch communist, prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and member of the Tweede Kamer (CPN)
- Johann Christian Ludwig Haken (1767–1835) German Protestant pastor in Pomerania and writer
- Max von Haken (1863–1917), German conductor and music teacher
- Roderich von Haken , also Rodo von Haken (1865–1929), German heraldist and ex-libris artist
- Wolfgang Haken (* 1928), German-American mathematician
See also:
Wiktionary: hooks - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations