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crook 音标拼音: [kr'ʊk] n. 钩,弯曲部分,恶棍
vt. 使弯曲,诈骗
vi. 弯曲 钩,弯曲部分,恶棍使弯曲,诈骗弯曲 crook n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [ synonym: { criminal}, { felon}, { crook}, { outlaw}, { malefactor}] 2: a circular segment of a curve; " a bend in the road"; " a crook in the path" [ synonym: { bend}, { crook}, { twist}, { turn}] 3: a long staff with one end being hook shaped [ synonym: { crook}, { shepherd' s crook}] v 1: bend or cause to bend; " He crooked his index finger"; " the road curved sharply" [ synonym: { crook}, { curve}] crook \ crook\ ( kr[ oo^] k), n. [ OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr[= o] kr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. { Crosier}, { Crotchet}, { Crutch}, { Encroach}.] 1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. [ 1913 Webster] Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. -- Phaer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: ( a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. ( b) A bishop' s staff of office. Cf. { Pastoral staff}. [ 1913 Webster] He left his crook, he left his flocks. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A pothook. " As black as the crook." -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. [ 1913 Webster] For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. -- Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. [ 1913 Webster] 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [ Cant, U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] { By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. [ 1913 Webster]
Crook \ Crook\ ( kr?? k), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Crooked} ( kr?? kt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Crooking}.] [ OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr? ka, Dan. kr? ge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. [ 1913 Webster] Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. -- Ascham. [ 1913 Webster] What soever affairs pass such a man' s hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster]
Crook \ Crook\, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port . . . crooketh like a bow." -- Phaer. [ 1913 Webster] Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. -- Camden. [ 1913 Webster] 359 Moby Thesaurus words for " crook": Judas, L, Malacca cane, aberrancy, aberration, advocate, alpenstock, andiron, angle, angle off, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bad person, bandeau, baton, bear off, bearer, beat, bend, bend back, bent, betrayer, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bilk, blackleg, body snatcher, booster, bow, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, branch, branching off, brassiere, buckle, buttress, caduceus, cane, cant, carrier, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, cervix, chain, chain of office, cheat, cheater, chevron, chicken thief, chisel, chiseler, chouse, circle, circuitousness, clout, coal tongs, coin, con man, conchoid, contort, convict, coon, cop, corner, corset, cozen, cozener, crane, crank, criminal, crosier, cross, cross- staff, crotchet, crumple, crutch, crutch- stick, curl, curve, damper, deceiver, declination, decurve, deflect, deflection, defraud, defrauder, delinquent, den of thieves, departure, desperado, desperate criminal, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diacaustic, diddle, diddler, diffract, diffuse, digression, discursion, disperse, distort, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, do, dogleg, dome, double, double- dealer, drift, drifting, elbow, ell, ellipse, embezzler, embow, errantry, evildoer, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fasces, felon, festoon, filch, filcher, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, flex, flimflam man, flimflammer, fork, foundation garment, fugitive, fulcrum, furcate, furcation, gallows bird, ganef, gangster, gaolbird, gavel, ghoul, girdle, grafter, grate, grating, grave robber, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, guy, guywire, gyp artist, gypper, hairpin, handstaff, heist, hook, hump, hunch, hyperbola, incurvate, incurve, indirection, inflect, inflection, jailbird, jewel thief, jock, jockstrap, juggler, keys, knee, knot, land pirate, land shark, land- grabber, larcener, larcenist, lawbreaker, lifter, lituus, loop, lurch, mace, mainstay, maintainer, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, mantle, mast, misfeasor, miter, mobster, nab, neck, nook, oblique, obliquity, outlaw, pallium, parabola, pastoral staff, paterissa, peculator, pererration, petty thief, pilferer, pinch, poacher, point, poker, portfolio, pothook, prop, prowler, public enemy, pull, purloiner, quarterstaff, quisling, quoin, racketeer, rambling, recurve, red hat, reflect, reflex, refract, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, retroflex, rigging, ring, robber, rod, rod of office, round, sag, salamander, scatter, scepter, scofflaw, screw, scrounger, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shillelagh, shoplifter, shoulder, shroud, sinner, sinus, skew, slant, slue, sneak thief, spine, spit, spring, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, steal, stealer, stick, stiffener, straying, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, swag, swagger stick, swanking stick, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swindle, swindler, swinging, tack, thief, thug, tiara, tongs, tracery, traitor, transgressor, triple crown, tripod, trivet, truncheon, turn, turn awry, turning, turnspit, twist, two- timer, upholder, variation, vault, veer, vertex, villain, walking stick, wand, wand of office, wandering, warp, white- collar thief, wind, worker of ill, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, wrongdoer, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag
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