hood

nom

1. 1

   A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.

2. 2

   A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

3. 3

   A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.

4. 4

   An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

5. 5

   Particular parts of conveyances A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

6. 6

   Particular parts of conveyances The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

7. 7

   Particular parts of conveyances A 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.

   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. 8

   Particular parts of conveyances A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

9. 9

   Particular parts of conveyances One 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).)

   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. 10

    Various body parts An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).

11. 11

    Various body parts The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

12. 12

    Various body parts 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)

13. 13

    Various body parts The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.

verbe

1. 1

   To cover (something) with a hood.

2. 2

   To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.

3. 3

   To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

nom

1. 1

   argotGangster, thug.

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

adjectif

1. 1

   Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

nom

1. 1

   argotA neighborhood.

   What’s goin’ down in the hood?

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

2. 2

   argotAny poor suburb or neighbourhood.

nom

1. 1

   Person wearing a hoodie.

Formes

pluriel

hoods

passé

hooded

participe passé

hooded

participe présent

hooding

3ᵉ personne du singulier

hoods