hood

How to use hood in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hood.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

It's just like any other mediocre programming job, but your office is a folding table under a decommissioned fume hood.

Examples6

Definitions11

Parts of speech2

Quick take

an aggressive and violent young criminal

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hood gathered in one view.

noun

an aggressive and violent young criminal

noun

a protective covering that is part of a plant

noun

(slang) a neighborhood

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hood.

noun

an aggressive and violent young criminal

See also: hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer

noun

a protective covering that is part of a plant

noun

(slang) a neighborhood

noun

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

noun

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

noun

metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

noun

the folding roof of a carriage

noun

a headdress that protects the head and face

noun

protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine"

noun

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

verb

cover with a hood; "The bandits were hooded"

Example sentences

It's just like any other mediocre programming job, but your office is a folding table under a decommissioned fume hood.

Not the most impressive thing to you or your team who know about all the goodies under the hood, but the must impressive thing to a random person from the street.

Obviously every software designer strives for "power made easy" -- it seems easy at first, but there is power under the hood when you need it.

Actually I worked as a synthetic organic chemist in a previous life and I was always much more afraid of the chronic systemic poisons than the things that blew up. It's one thing to have something go boom in your fume hood and quite another to get a drop of something on your glove that you don't even notice and then later that week all your hair starts falling out and everything tastes like metal.

No one is questioning his freedom to do what he chooses.> He does certain things for shock value...True but I think killing an elephant and then posting a video about it is a bit different than showing scantily clad women dancing on the hood of a convertible.

My bank, Chase, does in fact implement security against such a "lots of random account numbers" attack: not only must the account match, but the MAC/IP address, browser/cookie, and other under-the-hood identifiers must line up; any mismatch between account number and access tools initiates emailing or texting a verification code to a known address/phone, which then must be submitted to close the loop of verification and, only then, allow access.