hood

plural hoods

1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
   1. falconryA head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
   2. equestrianismA head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

      Synonyms: blinder

2. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
4. Particular parts of conveyances
   1. UKautomotiveA soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
   2. CanadaUSautomotiveThe hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

      Synonyms: cowl, motorhood, bonnet

   3. broadlyespeciallyA cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.

      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.

      2004, D. Michael Abrashoff, Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up, Penguin, →ISBN

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      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.

      2015, Max Lucado, Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 71

   4. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
   5. nauticalOne of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)

      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, […]

      1940, Lauchlan McKay, Richard Cornelius McKay, The Practical hip-builder, page 62

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      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 ...

      1830, A Treatise on Marine Architecture, page 260

      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 ...

      1874, Samuel James P. Thearle, Naval architecture: a treatise on laying off and building wood, iron, and composite ships. [With] Plates, page 360

5. Various body parts
   1. An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
   2. colloquialThe osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

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      Platysma myoides […] which sends attenuated fibres and slips to the gular region of the hood and is lost dorsad in the fascia covering the trapezius but acquires thickness over the sternum and cervix. Thyromandibularis […] Two distinct muscles may bear this name, an externus and an internus. The latter rises by two slips from about the middle of the inner surface of the mandible and is inserted into the middle of the inner side of the thyrohyal. The greatly elongated thyrobyal passes between the two layers of integument constituting the hood, at its middle fold, and so forms a “yard” to which the lower half of the hood is bent. This inner division of the Thyromandibularis being an adductor of the bone, is the chief agent in lowering the hood and bracing its lower moiety to the side of the neck—it is antagonised by the greater part of the outer division which rises fleshy immediately behind the inner one, but nearly on the lower edge of the jaw, the origin of the mylohyoideus being between them. It immediately divides into two superposed fascicles, the deeper one being inserted into the lower surface of the thyrohyal, a little behind the insertion of the inner division—the other sub division is inserted posteriorly to the former one into the outer side of the bone for the rest of its length and acting thus advantageously is an efficient erector of the lower part of the hood.

      1883, Charles W. De Vis, “Myology of Chlamydosaurus kingii”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 8, pages 301–302

      Synonyms: frill

   3. In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
   4. colloquialThe prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.

present singular third person hoods · participle present hooding · participle past hooded · past hooded

1. transitiveTo cover (something) with a hood.

   Antonyms: unhood

2. transitiveTo extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
3. intransitiveTo grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

plural hoods

1. slangGangster, thug.

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

   1968, John McPhee, chapter 7, in The Pine Barrens

alternative 'hood

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

plural hoods · alternative 'hood

1. slangAfrican-American VernacularA neighborhood.

   What’s goin’ down in the hood?

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

   1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul

   Synonyms: ghetto, nabe, neighborhood

2. slangAny poor suburb or neighbourhood.

   Synonyms: ghetto, shithole

plural hoods

1. UKPerson wearing a hoodie.

plural Hoods

1. countableuncountableA 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.

   2023 June 2, Kaanita Iyer, “US Army renames Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty”, in CNN

2. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States.
   3. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Hood County.
   4. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Hood River.