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[ 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
- 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
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- New antioxidants include ferulic acid, idebenone, ubiquinone coenzyme Q10, alpha lipoic acid, and resveratrol and are already making their way into our friendly neighborhood counters. You Being Beautiful
- Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
- By 1946, Woodhouse contends, the political objectives of all factions were clear to all, and there was no basis on which to argue that EAM's supporters were 'hoodwinked'. back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
- Having savored victory, the ruffians moved on to attack the homes of well-known abolitionists in the neighborhood.
- 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
- Church and Outram argue instead that solidary behavior and the skill of managers and supervisors in dealing with labor unrest are more reliable indicators of the likelihood of strikes.
- 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.
