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hood

A hood is a covering for the head. It covers the top, back and sides of the head. By extension, other objects may have hoods: cars, some flowers. The monk was wearing a hood. A hood is another word for neighbourhood. I've lived in the hood for five years.

hood

an aggressive and violent young criminal a protective covering that is part of a plant (slang) a neighborhood (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera a headdress that protects the head and face the folding roof of a carriage metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes (= cowl, cowling) 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 cover with a hood The bandits were hooded

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Simple sentences

It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
How do I open the hood?
A wily hunter, Christopher Columbus once donned a red riding hood and went into the forest. Without a doubt, he attracted the Big Bad Wolf, grabbed him, and dragged the screaming wolf back to his ship.
I told you to open the hood, not the trunk.
Tom was sitting on the hood of the car.
Tom and Maria dressed up as the Evil Wolf and the Little Red Riding Hood for Rosenmontag.
Tom sat on the hood of his car.
Everyone in the village called her Little Green Riding Hood.
Robin Hood and his band of merry men live in Sherwood Forest.
And now I will tell how it came about that Robin Hood fell afoul of the law.
Do you prefer buying clothes with or without a hood?
All good in the hood?
We are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood.
Open the hood.
Once upon a time, there lived in a village a little girl called Little Green Hood.
Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood has a neutral gender, while Charles Perrault's has a masculine one.
Tom opened the hood.
Tom was wearing a hood.
Tom opened the hood of the car.
Is Robin Hood alive?

Movie subtitles

They may have hidden it up there under the hood.
I'd say I was Little Red Riding Hood.
You're Robin Hood, aren't you?
Yes, thank you, Robin Hood.
The man who wins the golden arrow will be Robin Hood.
Why, Robin Hood, of course.
Robin Hood again, sire.
I'm called Robin Hood.
Kneel, Robin Hood.
Long live Robin Hood!
Never get through old Peg Leg Hood.
Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper.
I'll try to hit his hood with this and wake him up.
Little Red Riding Hood was a werewolf story.
He shot some of Douglas Fairbanks Senior's big productions in the 1920s, including Robin Hood and The Thief of Bagdad.
He played the villainous Prince John in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, photographed in Technicolor.
The midshipman's dirk will be lying on the table before Lord Hood.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl by the name of Red Riding Hood. who had a very, very sick grandmother.
So Red Riding Hood's mother sent her with a great big basket to take to the grandmother.
This is a mockup without a hood. -That's right!
Well, this is Sherwood, you know, and Robin Hood.
I noticed when Robin Hood's name is mentioned.
I'm little red riding hood.
Known to some as the outlaw Robin Hood.
Put your hood up.

News and current affairs

A decade ago, Alan Greenspan likened his problems of monetary management to driving a new car, having it suddenly stop, opening the hood, and not understanding a thing about what he saw.
A car owner does not need - or usually want - to bother to find out what exactly goes on under the hood.
Indeed, its unreliability is seriously weakening the EU's fiscal pact - which makes it necessary to open the hood and look inside.
Instead, there is the temptation to regard Osama bin Laden as a type of violent Robin Hood, whose actions, while impossible to condone officially, have helped them to recover a sense of Arab pride and dignity.
Some Robin Hood probably did brutalize the rich and, to cover his tracks, gave some of his loot to the poor.
Take the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.
You can read the fairy tale as an allegory and attribute different morals to the events and characters, but you cannot transform Little Red Riding Hood into Cinderella.
Take Little Red Riding Hood again.
A similar fate occurred to a Robin Hood tax, which, according to Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, should have forced banks and oil producers to provide resources for the poor.
Unfortunately, much as FTTs are the darling of leading liberal economic commentators and Robin Hood NGOs, they are an extremely misguided approach to achieving such worthy ends.

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