HOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hood mean? 

• HOOD (noun)
  The noun HOOD has 10 senses:

1. an aggressive and violent young criminal

2. a protective covering that is part of a plant

3. (slang) a neighborhood

4. a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera

5. (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head

6. metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

7. the folding roof of a carriage

8. a headdress that protects the head and face

9. protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine

10. (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal

  Familiarity information: HOOD used as a noun is familiar.

• HOOD (verb)
  The verb HOOD has 1 sense:

1. cover with a hood

  Familiarity information: HOOD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aggressive and violent young criminal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

goon; hood; hoodlum; punk; strong-armer; thug; tough; toughie

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hood"):

bully (a hired thug)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A protective covering that is part of a plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cap; hood

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)

Holonyms ("hood" is a part of...):

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(slang) a neighborhood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

neighborhood; neighbourhood (people living near one another)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hood; lens hood

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

attachment (a supplementary part or accessory)

Holonyms ("hood" is a part of...):

camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))

camera; television camera; tv camera (television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Domain category:

falconry (the art of training falcons to hunt and return)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exhaust hood; hood

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hood"):

range hood (exhaust hood over a kitchen range)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The folding roof of a carriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

roof (protective covering on top of a motor vehicle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hood"):

calash; calash top; caleche (the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A headdress that protects the head and face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

headdress; headgear (clothing for the head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hood"):

calash; caleche (a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century)

aventail; camail; ventail (a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck)

cowl (a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk))

Derivation:

hood (cover with a hood)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bonnet; cowl; cowling; hood

Context example:

the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Meronyms (parts of "hood"):

hood ornament (an ornament on the front of the hood of a car emblematic of the manufacturer)

Holonyms ("hood" is a part of...):

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Sense 10

Meaning:

(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hood" is a kind of...):

external body part (any body part visible externally)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

• HOOD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with a hood

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The bandits were hooded

Hypernyms (to "hood" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

hood (a headdress that protects the head and face)

 Context examples 

This polar hood may have formed by seasonal changes in atmospheric flow.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

"Where have you been, and what are you hiding behind you?" asked Meg, surprised to see, by her hood and cloak, that lazy Amy had been out so early.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This outbred rat breed is white with a black or brown hood.

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

He was very richly dressed, with furred robes, a scarlet hood, and wide hanging sleeves lined with flame-colored silk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These include static microisolator housing, handling animals with disinfected forceps, opening animal cages only in a hood, cage-by-cage testing and requiring that full barrier garb be worn by all persons entering animal rooms.

(Barrier Animal Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Because the researchers can look under the hood of the software to see how it handles information at every stage of processing, they can compare each stage with the functions of the auditory cortex, as imaged with fMRI.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

"Funny angels in hoods and mittens," said Jo, and set them to laughing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From the northern gate the prince and his companions looked down at a dark sea of heads, brightened here and there by the colored hoods of the women, or by the sparkling head-pieces of archers and men-at-arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)