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 →

2) A hood is a cover over something, like the cover over a cooker that takes away smoke. tree →

3) In US English, the hood is the metal cover over a car's engine (the bonnet in UK English). tree →

4) Informal US: the hood means a neighbourhood. tree →

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 →
• Little Red Riding Hood walked through the forest. tree →
• The cobra spread its hood and hissed. tree →
• Dad opened the hood of the car to check the oil. tree →
• Turn on the cooker hood so the kitchen does not fill with smoke. tree →
• My coat has a hood with fur around the edge. tree →
• Take your hood down so you can see the traffic. tree →
• ‘It’s me, Granny, your little Golden-hood. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.