Term: hook: a catch for locking a door
Candidate hypernym: fastener: restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place → 1
Candidate hypernym: hammerlock: a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back → 0
Candidate hypernym: castrato: a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice → 0
Candidate hypernym: neo-darwinism: a modern Darwinian theory that explains new species in terms of genetic mutations → 0
Candidate hypernym: irascibility: a feeling of resentful anger → 0
Candidate hypernym: larghetto: (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio → 0
Candidate hypernym: alluvial sediment: clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down → 0
Candidate hypernym: plainclothesman: a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty → 0
Candidate hypernym: dialectology: the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects → 0
Candidate hypernym: two-tier bid: a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares → 0
Candidate hypernym: purine: any of several bases that are derivatives of purine → 0