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# hood

«hood» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of a coat or jumper that you can pull up to cover…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hood, hoods); verb (hood — rare, mostly hooded)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hood is a part of a coat or jumper that you can pull up to cover your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#m1)

2) A hood is a cover over something, like the cover over a cooker that takes away smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#m2)

3) In US English, the hood is the metal cover over a car's engine (the bonnet in UK English). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#m3)

4) Informal US: the hood means a neighbourhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children pull up their hoods when it rains; a hoodie is a jumper with a hood. In stories, a hooded figure is mysterious, and Little Red Riding Hood wears a red hood. In science, the cobra spreads a hood around its neck. In safety: hoods can block side vision, so look carefully when crossing the road. Phrases: put your hood up, pull up your hood, under the hood.

### examples

- Put your hood up, it's starting to rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x1)
- Little Red Riding Hood walked through the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x2)
- The cobra spread its hood and hissed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x3)
- Dad opened the hood of the car to check the oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x4)
- Turn on the cooker hood so the kitchen does not fill with smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x5)
- My coat has a hood with fur around the edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x6)
- Take your hood down so you can see the traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x7)
- ‘It’s me, Granny, your little Golden-hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/#x8)

### note

Countable: hoods. Adjective: hooded (a hooded jacket). «-hood» is also an ending meaning a state or time: childhood, neighbourhood, brotherhood. US «hood» of a car = UK «bonnet».

### In the corpora

- [And when a boy grabbed Maddie's hood and dragged her backwards, she pushed him off to get free and stopped there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.