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[ US /ˈhʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈhʊd/ ]
NOUN
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- (slang) a neighborhood
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- the folding roof of a carriage
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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 - a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
VERB
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cover with a hood
The bandits were hooded
How To Use hood In A Sentence
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
- More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
- The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
- He pulled the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition.
- However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
- Kij: Nice to see Dream-Quest receive such prominence with that fantastic Gervasio Gallardo cover, inseparable from the contents thanks to childhood associations very similar to yours. MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
- But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
- The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza