(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
(n.) A person wearing a domino.
(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(3) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(4) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(5) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(6) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) The Domino system and a 1-2 days stay were the preferred options (25 and 24 per cent respectively).
(11) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(12) Then there is a domino effect, as reefs fail so will other ecosystems.
(13) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
(14) On Thursday, Domino’s Australia unveiled a pizza delivery robot in Brisbane.
(15) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
(16) In what Brown has described as a "domino" strategy, his meetings today with developing countries were planned to produce an agreement about a pledge to curb emissions.
(17) "The more countries that go down this path, the bigger the domino effect.
(18) At the start of this decade Iceland would have made an unlikely candidate for the first sovereign-state domino to fall in the financial meltdown.
(19) An algorithm for the calculation of plausibilities of paternity for the HLA system is presented, which is based on the concept of the game of domino.
(20) … I knew I would be like a domino in the line of fire Christopher Hansen Hansen was at the bar.
Hooded
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hood
(a.) Covered with a hood.
(a.) Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
(a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
(a.) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
(a.) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
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.