Meaning

17 senses
  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.

    Kapuze

    капюшо́нkapjušón, башлы́кbašlýk, капо́тkapót

    ка́птурkáptur, відло́гаvidlóha, капюшо́нkapjušón

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

  2. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

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

  4. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

    Haube, Kappe, Schutzdach

    a headdress that protects the head and face

  5. Particular parts of conveyances

    (UK)A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

    Verdeck

    откидно́й верхotkidnój verx

  6. (Canada, US)The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

    Motorhaube, Haube

    капо́тkapót

    капо́тkapót

  7. (broadly, especially)A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.

  8. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

    Abzug, Abzugshaube

    вы́тяжкаvýtjažka

    metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

  9. 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).)

  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).

    Nackenschild

  11. (colloquial)The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

    Nackenschild

  12. 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)

Examples

143 sentences
  1. Tom is wearing a hood.

    Том у капюшоні. — deniko

  2. Open the hood.

    Відкрий капот. — deniko

    ruОткройте капот. — Hellerick

    deMach mal die Motorhaube auf! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.

    Так спекотно, що можна було б смажити яйця на капотах машин. — rmdas

    ruТак жарко, что можно яичницу пожарить на капоте машины. — paul_lingvo

    deEs ist so heiß, dass man Eier auf den Motorhauben der Autos braten könnte. — MUIRIEL

  4. How do I open the hood?

    ruКак мне открыть капот? — marafon

    deWie kann ich die Motorhaube öffnen? — Hans_Adler

  5. Tom is wearing a hooded raincoat.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak:
hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries; (by extension) cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something:
Русский
By meaning 3
covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak:
soft top of a convertible car or carriage:
metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak:
enclosure that protects something, especially from above:
soft top of a convertible car or carriage:
hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries; (by extension) cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something:
metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes:
expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra and Indian cobra:

Origin

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from P

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”).

Clipping of hoodlum.

Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.

Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.

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Forms

plural: hoods
Singularhood
Pluralhoods

regular

Synonyms

20 synonyms
poor neighborhood, esp. black:ghettoB2
neighborhood:neighborhoodB1nabe
Close in meaning

Word family

45 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • open the hood
  • the hood of
  • on the hood

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hood — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto