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Definition of pennant - 11 dictionary results
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pen⋅nant

  [pen-uhnt]
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–noun
1. a long, tapering flag or burgee of distinctive form and special significance, borne on naval or other vessels and used in signaling or for identification.
2. any relatively long, tapering flag.
3. a flag serving as an emblem of victory or championship, esp. in baseball.
4. Music. hook (def. 12a).
5. Nautical. pendant (def. 6).
Origin:
1605–15; b. pennon and pendant
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hook

1  [hook]
–noun
1. a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
2. a fishhook.
3. anything that catches; snare; trap.
4. something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement: The product is good but we need a sales hook to get people to buy it.
5. something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol.
6. a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.
7. a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula: Sandy Hook.
8. a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
9. a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.
10. Sports.
a. the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck.
b. a ball describing such a path.
11. Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
12. Music.
a. Also called pennant. a stroke or line attached to the stem of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc.
b. an appealing melodic phrase, orchestral ornament, refrain, etc., often important to a popular song's commercial success.
13. Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling.
14. hooks, Slang. hands or fingers: Get your hooks off that cake!
15. Underworld Slang. a pickpocket.
16. Also called deck hook. Nautical. a triangular plate or knee that binds together the stringers and plating at each end of a vessel.
–verb (used with object)
17. to seize, fasten, suspend from, pierce, or catch hold of and draw with or as if with a hook.
18. to catch (fish) with a fishhook.
19. Slang. to steal or seize by stealth.
20. Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare.
21. (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns.
22. to catch hold of and draw (loops of yarn) through cloth with or as if with a hook.
23. to make (a rug, garment, etc.) in this fashion.
24. Sports. to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results.
25. Boxing. to deliver a hook with: The champion hooked a right to his opponent's jaw.
26. Rugby. to push (a ball) backward with the foot in scrummage from the front line.
27. to make hook-shaped; crook.
–verb (used without object)
28. to become attached or fastened by or as if by a hook.
29. to curve or bend like a hook.
30. Sports.
a. (of a player) to hook the ball.
b. (of a ball) to describe a hook in course.
31. Slang. to depart hastily: We'd better hook for home.
—Verb phrase
32. hook up,
a. to fasten with a hook or hooks.
b. to assemble or connect, as the components of a machine: to hook up a stereo system.
c. to connect to a central source, as of power or water: The house hasn't been hooked up to the city's water system yet.
d. Informal. to join or become associated with: He never had a decent job until he hooked up with this company.
—Idioms
33. by hook or by crook, by any means, whether just or unjust, legal or illegal. Also, by hook or crook.
34. get or give the hook, Informal. to receive or subject to a dismissal: The rumor is that he got the hook.
35. hook it, Slang. to run away; depart; flee: He hooked it when he saw the truant officer.
36. hook, line, and sinker, Informal. entirely; completely: He fell for the story—hook, line, and sinker.
37. off the hook,
a. out of trouble; released from some difficulty: This time there was no one around to get him off the hook.
b. free of obligation: His brother paid all his bills and got him off the hook.
38. on one's own hook, Informal. on one's own initiative or responsibility; independently.
39. on the hook, Slang.
a. obliged; committed; involved: He's already on the hook for $10,000.
b. subjected to a delaying tactic; waiting: We've had him on the hook for two weeks now.
Origin:
bef. 900; 1830–40, Americanism for def. 35; ME hoke (n. and v.), OE hōc (n.); c. D hoek hook, angle, corner; akin to G Haken, ON haki

Related forms:
hookless, adjective
hooklike, adjective

pend⋅ant

  [pen-duhnt]
–noun Also, pendent.
1. a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
2. an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling.
3. a hanging electrical lighting fixture; chandelier.
4. that by which something is suspended, as the ringed stem of a watch.
5. a match, parallel, companion, or counterpart.
6. Also, pennant. Nautical. a length of rope attached to a masthead, the end of a yardarm, etc., and having a block or thimble secured to its free end.
–adjective
7. pendent.
Origin:
1300–50; ME pendaunt < AF; MF pendant, n. use of prp. of pendre to hang < VL *pendere for L pendēre. See pend, -ant

Related forms:
pend⋅ant⋅ed, adjective
pend⋅ant⋅like, adjective
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pen·nant   (pěn'ənt)   
n.  

  1. Nautical A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.

  2. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.

  3. Sports

    1. A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.

    2. The championship symbolized by such a flag.


[Blend of pendant1 and pennon.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
hook

  1. tv.
    to cheat someone. : Watch the clerk in that store. He might try to hook you.
  2. tv.
    to steal something. : Lefty hooked a couple of candy bars just for the hell of it.
  3. tv.
    to addict someone (to something). (Not necessarily drugs.) : The constant use of bicarb hooked him to the stuff.
  4. n.
    the grade of C. : I didn't study at all and I still got a hook!
  5. tv.
    to earn or pull the grade of C on something in school. : History? I hooked it without any trouble.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pendant  (n.)
c.1400, "loose, hanging part of anything," from Anglo-Fr. pendaunt "hanging" (c.1300), from O.Fr. pendant (13c.), noun use of prp. of pendre "to hang," from L. pendere "to hang," from PIE base *(s)pen(d)- "to pull, stretch" (see span (v.)). Meaning "dangling part of an earring" is attested from 1555. Nautical sense of "tapering flag" is recorded from 1485. "In this sense presumably a corruption of pennon" [OED].

pennant 
1611, "rope for hoisting," probably a blend of pendant (q.v.) in the nautical sense of "suspended rope" and pennon (q.v.). Use for "flag on a warship" first recorded 1698; "flag symbolizing a sports championship" (especially baseball) is from 1880; as a synonym for "championship" it was first used 1915.

hook 
O.E. hoc, perhaps related to O.E. haca "bolt," from P.Gmc. *khokaz/*khakan- (cf. Du. haak, Ger. Haken "hook"), from PIE *keg- "bent object" (cf. Rus. kogot "claw"). For spelling, see hood. Boxing sense of "short, swinging blow with the elbow bent" is from 1898. Fig. sense was in M.E. (see hooker); hooked "addicted" is from 1925, originally in ref. to narcotics. By hook or by crook (c.1380) probably alludes to tools of professional thieves. Hook, line, and sinker "completely" is 1838, a metaphor from angling.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

Pennant

A continuation pattern in technical analysis formed when there is a large movement in a stock, the flagpole, followed by a consolidation period with converging trendlines, the pennant, followed by a breakout movement in the same direction as the initial large movement, the second half of the flagpole.



As can be seen in the above picture, there is a large rise in the stock, followed by a converging consolidation period that resembles a pennant and a resulting continuation of the initial trend.

Investopedia Commentary

Pennants, which are similar to flags in terms of structure, have converging trendlines during their consolidation period and they last from one to three weeks. The volume at each period of the pennant is also important. The initial move must be met with large volume while the pennant should have weakening volume, followed by a large increase in volume during the breakout.

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Continuation Patterns - Part 1
Continuation Patterns - Part 2
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Continuation Patterns - Part 3
Continuation Patterns - Part 4

See also: Chartist, Continuation Pattern, Flag, Pattern, RRSP, Technical Analysis, Trendline, Triangle

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pennant

See triangle.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hook
Pronunciation: 'huk
Function: noun
1 : an instrument used in surgery to take hold of tissue hook> hook>
2 : an anatomical part that resembles a hook
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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