تعريف crook في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal
People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got., November 18, 1973 (The Washington Post).
- ill, sick
- not right, not up to standard
Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
- A shepard's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds
Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.
- To bend
...In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years, he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair.
- A bend
She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
- A form of warp in which a board deviates edgewise from a straight line from end to end
- A staff with a hook at one end, particularly one used by shepherds
- The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply
- someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- Abrupt bend in a tree or log
- {f} bend, curve; be bent, be curved
- A defect of a tree characterized by a sharp bend in the main stem
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist
- A crook is a long pole with a large hook at the end. A crook is carried by a bishop in religious ceremonies, or by a shepherd. a shepherd's crook
- an abrupt bend in a tree or log; a defect
- A criminal who steals
- Any implement having a bent or crooked end
- A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal. The man is a crook and a liar
- A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc
- The crook of your arm or leg is the soft inside part where you bend your elbow or knee. She hid her face in the crook of her arm
- To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature
- An abrupt curvature or bend in a tree bole
- If you crook your arm or finger, you bend it. He crooked his finger: `Come forward,' he said
- {i} thief (Slang); hook; rod with a curved end, shepherd's crook
- Cf
- A pothook
- A bishop's staff of office
- An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge
- To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve
- bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
- Edge distortion of a board easily identified by holding the edge upwards and sighting down the the top edge In most case, before using a crook edge board, it should be resawn
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc
- Pastoral staff
- A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure
- If someone says they will do something by hook or by crook, they are determined to do it, even if they have to make a great effort or use dishonest means. They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook. if you crook your finger or your arm, you bend it
- a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
- Crook is a form of warp in which the board curves along one edge
- to change its pitch or key
- crook and nanny
- Average person or people
We can also start a story with the name of someone who has star quality, a person whose name is widely known—in almost every nook and cranny, by almost every crook and nanny.
- crook and nanny
- A very small place; mistaken form of nook and cranny
There was sand in every crook and nanny, from truck to keel. As the emerging seamen ran out of expletives so the Kalahari may have run out of sand.
- by hook or by crook
- By any means possible; one way or another
She was determined to finish the project, by hook or by crook.
- crooked
- Set at an angle; not vertical or square
That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?.
- crooked
- Dishonest or illegal
He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.
- crooked
- Simple past tense and past participle of crook
- crooked
- {a} bent, winding, perverse, cross
- crooked
- {a} bandy
- crooked
- {a} courb
- crookedly
- {a} not straitly, untowardly
- Crooked
- cam
- Crooked
- corbe
- Crookedly
- acrook
- by hook and by crook
- at any price, by any mean necessary, however it must be done
- by hook or by crook
- in any way necessary; "I'll pass this course by hook or by crook
- by hook or by crook
- at any price, by any mean necessary, however it must be done
- crooked
- False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings
- crooked
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
- crooked
- irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"
- crooked
- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
- crooked
- {s} not straight, bent; dishonest
- crooked
- past of crook
- crooked
- Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right
- crooked
- If you describe a person or an activity as crooked, you mean that they are dishonest or criminal. a crooked cop = bent
- crooked
- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- crooked
- Not straight; having one or more bends or angles
- crooked
- A crooked smile is uneven and bigger on one side than the other. Polly gave her a crooked grin. = lopsided + crookedly crook·ed·ly Nick was smiling crookedly at her
- crooked
- If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted. the crooked line of his broken nose. a crooked little tree. straight
- crooked
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- crooked
- Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed
- crooked
- {s} askew
- crooked
- kam
- crookedly
- In a crooked manner
- crookedly
- in a crooked lopsided manner; "he smiled lopsidedly"
- crookedly
- In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner
- crookedly
- in bent or curved form; dishonestly, corruptly
- crooking
- past of crook
- crooks
- plural of crook
- crooks
- third-person singular of crook