hood
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Noun (10)hoods
- an aggressive and violent young criminalSynonyms: hoodlumgoonpunkthugtoughtoughiestrong-armerType of criminal, felonKinds bully
- a protective covering that is part of a plantSynonyms: capType of covering, natural coveringPart of plant, flora
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city areaSynonyms: 'hoodType of neighborhood, neighbourhood
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a cameraSynonyms: lens hoodType of attachmentPart of camera, television camera
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's headType of covering
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumesSynonyms: exhaust hoodType of coveringKinds range hood
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine“there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars”“the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine”Synonyms: bonnetcowlcowling
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
Verb (1)hoods, hooded, hooding
- cover with a hood“The bandits were hooded”More general cover
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Translations
Noun hood, head covering on a coat
- Spanish
- capucha
- French
- capuche
- German
- Kapuze
- Italian
- cappuccio
- Portuguese
- capuz
- Turkish
- kapüşon
- Russian
- капюшо́н kapjušón
- Arabic
- قَلَنْسُوَة qalansuwa
- Chinese
- 风帽 fēngmào
- Japanese
- フード fūdo
20 more languages
- Dutch
- kap
- Polish
- kaptur
- Swedish
- huva
- Greek
- κουκούλα koukoúla
- Korean
- 후드 hudeu
- Hungarian
- kapucni
- Portuguese (PT)
- capuz
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 風帽 fēngmào
- Albanian
- kapuç
- Catalan
- caputxa
- Czech
- kapuce
- Danish
- hætte
- Esperanto
- kapuĉo
- Estonian
- kapuuts
- Finnish
- huppu
- Georgian
- კაპიუშონი ḳaṗiušoni
- Icelandic
- hetta
- Norwegian
- hette
- Romanian
- glugă
- Serbo-Croatian
- kapuljača
Noun car bonnet, engine cover
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. hood, hod, AS. hōd; akin to D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed. √13.
1. State; condition. obsolete
How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?— Edmund Spenser
2. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially: (a) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed. (b) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. “All hoods make not monks.” William Shakespeare (c) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure. (d) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood. (e) A covering for a horse's head. (f) Falconry A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
3. Anything resembling a hood in form or use; as: (a) The top or head of a carriage. (b) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind. (c) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue. (d) The top of a pump. (e) Ord. A covering for a mortar. (f) Botany The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; — called also helmet. Asa Gray (g) Nautical A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
4. Shipbuilding The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
1. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.— Alexander Pope
2. To cover; to hide; to blind.
While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, “Amen.”— William Shakespeare
Hooding end Shipbuilding, the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
Origin: shortened from hoodlum.
1. ETY Same as hoodlum. colloquial
2. Same as neighborhood. slang
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> (HOOD) An architectural design method, primarily for Ada, leading to automated checking, documentation and source code generation.
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