arrester hook

Questions about arrester hook

What is another word for arrester hook?

It depends which arrester hook you mean. In the sense “a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier”, the synonyms are arrester. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of arrester hook?

WordNet records no antonym for arrester hook. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for arrester hook come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of arrester hook

• Full entry for arrester hookAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for arrester hookWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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