Meaning of Hood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gangster, thug.
   slang
2. A neighborhood.
   slang
3. Person wearing a hoodie.
   UK
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
6. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
7. Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
   slang
8. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
9. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
   countable, uncountable
10. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
11. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States.
    countable, uncountable
12. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
13. Ellipsis of Hood County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
14. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
15. Ellipsis of Hood River.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
16. Particular parts of conveyances
    UK
17. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
    UK
18. The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
    Canada, US
19. A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
    broadly, especially
20. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
21. 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).)
22. Various body parts
23. An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
24. The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
    colloquial
25. 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)
26. The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
    colloquial

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Examples

“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.”

“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, […]”

“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.”

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

“What’s goin’ down in the hood?”

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

“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.”

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