Ring vs. Hook — What's the Difference?

A small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority

A hook is a tool consisting of a length of material, typically metal, that contains a portion that is curved or indented, such that it can be used to grab onto, connect, or otherwise attach itself onto another object. In a number of uses, one end of the hook is pointed, so that this end can pierce another material, which is then held by the curved or indented portion.

A ring-shaped or circular object

A curved or sharply bent device, usually of metal, used to catch, drag, suspend, or fasten something else.

An enclosed space, surrounded by seating for spectators, in which a sport, performance, or show takes place

A fishhook.

A group of people engaged in a shared enterprise, especially one involving illegal or unscrupulous activity

A curved or barbed plant or animal part.

A number of atoms bonded together to form a closed loop in a molecule

A short angled or curved line on a letter.

A set of elements with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, the second being distributive over the first and associative.

A sickle.

An act of ringing a bell, or the resonant sound caused by this

A sharp bend or curve, as in a river.

A particular quality conveyed by something heard or expressed

A point or spit of land with a sharply curved end.

Surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment

A means of catching or ensnaring; a trap.

Put an aluminium strip round the leg of (a bird) for subsequent identification

A means of attracting interest or attention; an enticement

Fraudulently change the identity of (a motor vehicle), typically by changing its registration plate

(Music) A catchy motif or refrain

Short for ringbark

A short swinging blow in boxing delivered with a crooked arm.

Make a clear resonant or vibrating sound

The course of a ball that curves in a direction away from the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the left of a right-handed player.

Call by telephone

A stroke that sends a ball on such a course.

(of a place) resound or reverberate with (a sound or sounds)

A ball propelled on such a course.

A circular object, form, line, or arrangement.

In surfing, the lip of a breaking wave.

A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.

(Baseball) A curve ball.

A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something

(Basketball) A hook shot.

Rings(Sports) A pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible.

To catch, suspend, or connect with a hook.

A circular movement or course, as in dancing.

(Informal) To snare.

An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place

(Slang) To steal; snatch.

A rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held.

To fasten by a hook.

The sport of boxing.

To pierce or gore with a hook.

An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.

To take strong hold of; captivate

Bookmakers considered as a group.

To cause to become addicted.

An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests

To make (a rug) by looping yarn through canvas with a type of hook.

A political contest; a race.

To hit with a hook in boxing.

(Botany) An annual ring.

To hit (a golf ball) in a hook.

(Mathematics) The area between two concentric circles; annulus.

(Baseball) To pitch (a ball) with a curve.

(Mathematics) A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is a commutative group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.

(Basketball) To shoot (a ball) in a hook shot.

Any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.

(Sports) To impede the progress of (an opponent in ice hockey) by holding or restraining the player with one's stick, in violation of the rules.

(Chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in polygonal form. Also called closed chain.

To bend like a hook.

The sound created by a bell or another sonorous vibrating object.

To fasten by means of a hook or a hook and eye.

A loud sound, especially one that is repeated or continued.

(Slang) To work as a prostitute.

A telephone call

A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

A suggestion of a particular quality

A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

A set of bells.

Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

The act or an instance of sounding a bell.

The curved needle used in the art of crochet.

To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle

The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

To form into a ring or rings.

A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.

To ornament or supply with a ring or rings

A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.

To remove a circular strip of bark around the circumference of (a tree trunk or branch); girdle.

A snare; a trap.

To put a ring in the nose of (an animal).

(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

To hem in (animals) by riding in a circle around them.

(informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.

(Games) To toss a ring over (a peg), as in horseshoes.

(agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.

To form a ring or rings.

(authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.

To move, run, or fly in a spiral or circular course.

(narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.

To give forth a clear resonant sound.

A finesse.

To cause something to ring.

A jack (the playing card).

To sound a bell in order to summon someone

(geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

To have a sound or character suggestive of a particular quality

(music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

To be filled with sound; resound

A ship's anchor.

To hear a persistent humming or buzzing

(programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.

To be filled with talk or rumor

(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.

To cause (a bell, for example) to ring.

(typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.

To produce (a sound) by or as if by ringing.

A háček.

To announce, proclaim, or signal by or as if by ringing

Senses relating to sports.

Chiefly British To call (someone) on the telephone. Often used with up

(baseball) A curveball.

To test (a coin, for example) for quality by the sound it produces when struck against something.

(basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.

(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

(boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc

A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.

(British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)

(UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.

Any of the chevrons denoting rank.

In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

(slang) A prostitute.

(historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

A pickpocket.

(botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

(surfing) shoulder

(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.

A circular group of people or objects.

(transitive) To attach a hook to.

(astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.

(transitive) To catch with a hook hook a fish.

(British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.

(transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

(transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

(internet) webring

(transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

To steal.

The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.

(transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices. Category:en:Corruption

To make addicted; to captivate.

(chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

To play a hook shot.

(geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

(rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

(typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

(historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.

(computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

To engage in prostitution.

(firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

(cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

To finesse.

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

(intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

(figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

(colloquial) A telephone call.

That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

See Eccentric, and V-hook.

(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

A snare; a trap.

(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

A field sown two years in succession.

A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.{{cite-book

The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; - called also hook bones.

(transitive) To enclose or surround.

A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.

The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball; in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer who struck the ball.

(transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

A procedure within the encoding of a computer program which allows the user to modify the program so as to import data from or export data to other programs.

(transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

(transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

To steal.

To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence intransitive, to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

(intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

To move or go with a sudden turn;

(transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

A catch for locking a door

(transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Anything that serves as an enticement

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

To telephone (someone).

A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

(intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;

(intransitive) To produce music with bells.

A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

Fasten with a hook

To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle;

To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

To practice making music with bells.

Take by theft;

To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.

Make off with belongings of others

To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.

Hit with a hook;

To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

Catch with a hook;

To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

Secure with the foot;

To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

Entice and trap;

To rise in the air spirally.

Approach with an offer of sexual favors;

A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.

A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.

An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

A circular group of persons.

The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

A characteristic sound;

A toroidal shape;

A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling;

(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop

An association of criminals;

The sound of a bell ringing;

A square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

Jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger;

A strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

Sound loudly and sonorously;

Ring or echo with sound;

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification;

Be around;

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify;