hood

noun

1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
2. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
3. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
4. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
5. (UK)Particular parts of conveyances
6. (Canada, US)Particular parts of conveyances
7. (broadly, especially)Particular parts of conveyances

   “Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.”

   “I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well.”

8. Particular parts of conveyances
9. Particular parts of conveyances

   “Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its proper dimensions, the tenons cut, and their ...”

   “The fore hoods end at a rabbet cut in the wood stem (see Plate CXVIII.), and the after hoods end at a rabbet prepared in the yellow metal body post. The fore hoods are fastened to the bottom plating as elsewhere; but in the stem they have ...”

   “But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]”

10. Various body parts
11. (colloquial)Various body parts
12. Various body parts
13. (colloquial)Various body parts
14. (slang)Gangster, thug.

    “Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.”

15. (slang)A neighborhood.

    “What’s goin’ down in the hood?”

    “Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors / Just animals surviving with that animal behavior”

16. (slang)Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
17. (UK)Person wearing a hoodie.

verb

1. (transitive)To cover (something) with a hood.
2. (transitive)To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
3. (intransitive)To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.

   “Last month, Fort Hood in Texas, another major military installation, was redesignated Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who became the first Hispanic person to wear four stars on his uniform.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A placename:
3. (countable, uncountable)A placename:
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)A placename:
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)A placename: