What's the difference between cowl and hood?

Cowl


Definition:

  • (n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
  • (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
  • (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
  • (n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surrey police have apologised to the Dowlers, and to Cowles, now 21, for missed opportunities early on in the police investigation which might have led to Bellfield being caught sooner.
  • (2) The judge also authorised Gately's partner Andrew Cowles or family to take the body home.
  • (3) Cowles argued the article was inaccurate because a postmortem had confirmed that Gately, who was holidaying in Majorca at the time of his death, had died from natural causes.
  • (4) It was reported that police wanted to speak to a 25-year-old Bulgarian man said to have met Gately and Cowles, at a bar and returned with them to their home before the singer's death.
  • (5) This insoluble alkaline phosphatase has been characterized and compared to the previously purified heat-solubilized enzyme (Hulett-Cowling, F.M.
  • (6) "Stephen and Andrew [Cowles, Gately's partner] had chosen to make Majorca their second home and we know that Stephen loved the times they spent together here.
  • (7) The second piece found on 30 March in Mauritius – eight days after the engine cowling – is “almost certainly” a panel segment from MH370’s main cabin.
  • (8) Carson Cowles, who identified himself as Roof’s uncle, told Reuters that Roof’s father had recently given him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present and that Roof had seemed adrift.
  • (9) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.
  • (10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
  • (11) Recommendations to minimize the number and severity of snowmobiling injuries in children include an education program for both adults and their children, use of lightweight cowling to protect the legs, incorporation of a governor on the throttle to prevent excessive speeds, and use of a restraint for children travelling as passengers on the snowmobile.
  • (12) The jury are still deliberating on a charge of the attempted abduction of another girl, Rachel Cowles, then 11, a day before Milly vanished.
  • (13) Suddenly a flickering, cowled figure enters the frame, stabbing each of the cops with what looks like a syringe.
  • (14) This led to the jury being discharged and the Cowles case left on file.
  • (15) It is not yet possible to assess the outcome or timing of the Brexit negotiations, but in certain circumstances we may need to create approximately 150 new roles located in the EU,” said Jim Cowles, who runs Citi’s operations in Europe , the Middle East and Africa, in an email to staff this week.
  • (16) In order to improve the working conditions of coalminers exposed to high ambient temperature, the authors have studied the effects of wearing an under-vest and a cowl covering the head and shoulders made in sponge-cloth and soaked with cold water (cooling clothes).
  • (17) Andrew Cowles, the civil partner of Stephen Gately , has today formally complained to the press watchdog about the controversial Daily Mail column by Jan Moir about the pop star's death.
  • (18) Malaysia said it would send a team to retrieve the possible piece of aircraft engine inlet cowling, which was found near Mossel Bay, a small town in Western Cape province on the southern coast.
  • (19) The judge said that there would be no retrial over Cowles and that an attempted abduction charge would lie on file.
  • (20) Moir said she honestly believed that Gately's death raised many unanswered questions that were a matter of public interest and defended her use of the word "sleazy" to describe the circumstances of his death, which occurred in Majorca after Gately and his civil partner Andrew Cowles went to a nightclub and brought back a Bulgarian man to their apartment.

Hood


Definition:

  • (n.) State; condition.
  • (n.) A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment
  • (n.) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
  • (n.) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
  • (n.) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
  • (n.) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
  • (n.) A covering for a horse's head.
  • (n.) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a hood in form or use
  • (n.) The top or head of a carriage.
  • (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
  • (n.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
  • (n.) The top of a pump.
  • (n.) A covering for a mortar.
  • (n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
  • (n.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
  • (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
  • (v. t.) To cover; to hide; to blind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (2) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (3) All recipient mice and their littermates were maintained in isolation hoods to eliminate the possibility of exposure to other sources of P. carinii.
  • (4) Regarding the shots fired from Brelo’s gun, O’Donnell said they could have been the ones causing death, but so could others fired by other officers before his shots from the hood of the vehicle.
  • (5) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
  • (6) To predict hood effectiveness, it is important to have knowledge of the airflow field that it generates.
  • (7) Asked if more needed to be done by Brinker and the board, Hood would only say: "They need to figure out what's going on.
  • (8) Andrew Hood, of the IFS, wrote: “Mr Osborne wants further cuts to social security spending to help reduce the deficit.
  • (9) Experiments were performed to measure velocities in front of six slot hoods.
  • (10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (11) We cannot bring about justice through violence,” said the Rev Dr Jeff Hood, one of the organizers of the protest in Dallas.
  • (12) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
  • (13) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
  • (14) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) FYI - I strongly object to Cards first base coach Chris Maloney wearing a hooded sweatshirt under his uniform.
  • (15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
  • (16) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
  • (17) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
  • (18) Use of the laminar flow cabinet produced a significantly greater level of contamination than the other methods, and it is concluded that the exhaust-ventilated safety hood should be used for this procedure.
  • (19) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
  • (20) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.

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