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crook
Overview of noun crook
The noun crook has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor -- (someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime)
2. (1) bend, crook, twist, turn -- (a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path")
3. crook, shepherd's crook -- (a long staff with one end being hook shaped)
Overview of verb crook
The verb crook has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. crook, curve -- (bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crook
3 senses of crook
Sense 1
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
bend, crook, twist, turn
=> curve, curved shape
=> line
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
crook, shepherd's crook
=> staff
=> stick
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun crook
2 of 3 senses of crook
Sense 1
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
=> accessory, accessary
=> arsonist, incendiary, firebug
=> blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist
=> bootlegger, moonshiner
=> briber, suborner
=> conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator
=> desperado, desperate criminal
=> fugitive, fugitive from justice
=> gangster, mobster
=> highbinder
=> highjacker, hijacker
=> hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer
=> kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher
=> mafioso
=> moll, gun moll, gangster's moll
=> murderer, liquidator, manslayer
=> probationer, parolee
=> pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker
=> racketeer
=> raper, rapist
=> recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal
=> scofflaw
=> smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser
=> thief, stealer
=> traitor, treasonist
=> violator, lawbreaker, law offender
HAS INSTANCE=> Bonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid
HAS INSTANCE=> James, Jesse James
HAS INSTANCE=> MacGregor, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy
Sense 2
bend, crook, twist, turn
=> bight
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crook
3 senses of crook
Sense 1
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
=> wrongdoer, offender
Sense 2
bend, crook, twist, turn
=> curve, curved shape
Sense 3
crook, shepherd's crook
=> staff
Antonyms of noun crook
Member Holonyms of noun crook
Substance Holonyms of noun crook
Part Holonyms of noun crook
Member Meronyms of noun crook
Substance Meronyms of noun crook
Part Meronyms of noun crook
Meronyms of noun crook
Holonyms of noun crook
Attributes of noun crook
Derived Forms of noun crook
1 of 3 senses of crook
Sense 2
bend, crook, twist, turn
RELATED TO>(verb) crook#1
=> crook, curve
Domain of noun crook
Domain Terms of noun crook
Familiarity of noun crook
crook used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun crook
3 senses of crook
Sense 1
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
> wrongdoer, offender
=> abuser, maltreater
=> attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
=> barrator, barrater
=> convict
=> criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> delinquent, juvenile delinquent
=> deserter, defector
=> gonif, goniff, ganef, ganof
=> transgressor
=> malfeasant
=> molester
=> no-show, nonattender, truant
=> perpetrator, culprit
=> pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce
=> recidivist, backslider, reversionist
=> reprobate, miscreant
=> shark
=> shyster, pettifogger
=> sinner, evildoer
=> usurper, supplanter
=> war criminal
Sense 2
bend, crook, twist, turn
> curve, curved shape
=> normal curve, bell-shaped curve, Gaussian curve, Gaussian shape
=> meander
=> closed curve
=> S-shape
=> catenary
=> Cupid's bow
=> wave, undulation
=> extrados
=> gooseneck
=> intrados
=> bend, crook, twist, turn
=> hook, crotchet
=> envelope
=> arc
=> scallop, crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle
=> spiral
=> helix, spiral
=> perversion
=> sinuosity, sinuousness
=> arch
=> bell, bell shape, campana
=> bow, arc
=> crescent
=> quadric, quadric surface
=> roulette, line roulette
Sense 3
crook, shepherd's crook
> staff
=> alpenstock
=> baton
=> crook, shepherd's crook
=> crutch
=> distaff
=> flagpole, flagstaff
=> pikestaff
=> quarterstaff
Meronyms of noun crook
3 senses of crook
Sense 1
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
crook, shepherd's crook
=> staff
=> stick
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun crook
Grep of noun crook
crook
crookback
crooked-stemmed aster
crookedness
crookes
crookes radiometer
crookes tube
crookneck
crookneck squash
shepherd's crook
Antonyms of verb crook
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
=> bend, flex
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
=> recurve
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
=> bend, flex
'Cause To' of verb crook
Derived Forms of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
RELATED TO>(noun) crook#2
=> bend, crook, twist, turn
Domain of verb crook
Domain Terms of verb crook
Familiarity of verb crook
crook used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb crook
1 sense of crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
> bend, flex
=> crook, curve
=> arch, curve, arc
=> incurvate
=> retroflex, replicate
=> lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle
=> crouch, stoop, bend, bow
=> double over, double, double up
=> fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
=> curl up, curl, draw in
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb crook
Sense 1
crook, curve
=> bend, flex
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Grep of verb crook
crook
Grep of adj crook
crookback
crookbacked
crooked
Grep of adv crook
by hook or by crook
crookedly
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