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A hook is a hand tool used for securing and moving loads. It consists of a round wooden handle with a strong metal hook about 20 cm (8 inches) long projecting at a right angle from the center of the handle.
Lifting hook on a crane truck with a standard round hook and a gated opening A cabin hook used as a latch for a wooden gate Fish hooks are pointed and often barbed to help catch and tether a fish's mouth The main anchor of IJN battleship Hiei with the classic double-hook design Clothes hangers with a top hook to hang onto a crossbar or a clothesline A grappling hook with multiple hooks to ...
Illustration of hook effect adapted from Schiettecatte et al. [1] The hook effect refers to the prozone phenomenon, also known as antibody excess, or the postzone phenomenon, also known as antigen excess.
Peter Frampton's talk box. A talk box (also spelled talkbox and talk-box) is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument.
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates is a non-fiction book detailing the similarities between economics and piracy.Author Peter T. Leeson (born July 29, 1979), shows in this book how pirates instigated democratic practices for their mutual profit, ideas which preceded the methods of society in the 16th century.
A shoe using hook-and-loop closures. Hook-and-loop fasteners, commonly known as Velcro (a genericized trademark), hook-and-pile fasteners or touch fasteners are versatile fastening devices that allow two surfaces to be repeatedly attached and detached with ease.
Hooking can be achieved by modifying the source of the executable or library before an application is running, through techniques of reverse engineering.This is typically used to intercept function calls to either monitor or replace them entirely.
In web development, a webhook is a method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web page or web application with custom callbacks.These callbacks may be maintained, modified, and managed by third-party users who need not be affiliated with the originating website or application.