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Definition: Skyhook |
SkyhookNoun1. Helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects. 2. A hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A self-propelled logging machine, comprising a powered and manned carriage suspended from and travelling along one or more tight skylines, and equipped with blocks and tackle for hoisting and transporting loads. Source: European Union. (references) |
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See tether propulsion for more details on various types of skyhooks.
The term skyhook was also used by Daniel Dennett in the book Darwin's Dangerous Idea to describe a source of design complexity that did not build on lower, simpler layers -- loosely, a miracle. Dennett contrasts theories of complexity which require such miracles with those based on "cranes" -- structures which permit greater complexity but are founded solidly "on the ground" of that which has gone before.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skyhook."
Crosswords: Skyhook |
| Specialty definitions using "skyhook": constant-level balloon ♦ skyhook balloon. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ten-million cubic foot "Winzen" research balloon on the carrier's flight deck just prior to launching, during Operation "Skyhook", Refly "B", 30 January 1960. The balloon carried scientific devices to measure and record primary cosmic rays at 18-to-22 miles altitude. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Skyhook" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Skyhook" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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skyhook | 27 |
skyhook crane | 11 |
damping skyhook | 3 |
control skyhook | 3 |
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Words beginning with "skyhook": skyhooks. (additional references) | |
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"Skyhook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schook, Skyhawk. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-k-o-o-s-y" | |
-2 letters: hooks, hooky, kooks, kooky, shook. | |
-3 letters: hook, hoys, kook, oohs, shoo, sook, yoks. | |
-4 letters: hoy, kos, oho, ohs, ooh, shy, sky, soy, yok. | |
-5 letters: ho, oh, os, oy, sh, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-k-o-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: kolkhosy, skyhooks. | |
+3 letters: hokypokies. | |
+4 letters: hokeypokeys. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 79 68 6F 6F 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- -.--. .... --- --- -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01111001 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k y h o o k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0079 0068 006F 006F 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53779174818177 |
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