(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.
Neighborhood
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
(n.) A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
(n.) The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
(n.) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(2) We conducted a comparative case-control study of colorectal cancer and adenoma involving 221 cases with colorectal cancer, 525 cases with colorectal adenoma and 578 neighborhood controls.
(3) One hundred ninety-seven cases occurred in the city of Zanesville, with 34.7% of cases concentrated in two neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
(4) Human immunodeficiency virus infection was significantly higher for those women who acknowledge intravenous drug use (odds ratio 12.9, 95% confidence interval 7.3 to 22.7), were born in Haiti (odds ratio 2.6, 95% confidence interval 1.6 to 4.1), lacked prenatal care (odds ratio 2.2, 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 4.2), or received prenatal care at the hospital clinic versus a neighborhood health center (odds ratio 3.0, 95% confidence interval 1.7 to 5.3).
(5) A survey of two poor neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica is reported.
(6) Two firefighters died in 2007 battling a restaurant fire in the West Roxbury neighborhood
(7) Trouble could ensue after everything from “being too friendly with white girls” to walking through a white neighborhood where he liked to fish after dark.
(8) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(9) When sera were introduced into wells cut in the gels, zones of hemolysis were observed in the neighborhood of those containing neuraminidase antibodies.
(10) Physicians in a general practice in a working class neighborhood in London decided to allow patients to read their medical records.
(11) Four models identified in a survey of 19 neighborhood mental health programs are described.
(12) The diets of 746 colon cancer cases in Los Angeles County, California (USA) were compared with those of 746 controls matched on age, sex, race, and neighborhood.
(13) How Chicago police used pot to disappear young people at Homan Square Read more Davis, a Democrat who represents the neighborhood that includes the Homan Square site, had until Wednesday only said publicly that he would “strongly support” a federal inquiry into what 11 detainees – in strikingly similar detailed accounts provided to the Guardian – have described as extended interrogation without access to legal counsel or their families, often while shackled.
(14) This method permits direct measurement of the effects of low doses of radiation and other mutagens without resort to the controversial extrapolation procedure customarily used to estimate effects of doses in the neighborhood of actual human exposures.
(15) The authors examined recent alcoholic beverage consumption in relation to the risk of breast cancer in a case-control study of women aged less than 70 years, conducted in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from 1982 to 1986: 607 breast cancer cases identified in a cancer hospital were compared with 1,214 controls matched to the cases on neighborhood and decade of age.
(16) The future applications of this type of systematic approach, perhaps with computer technology, offer the opportunity for comparison of delivery, quality, and cost of health care between various sources of primary care (emergency-room facilities, private physicians' offices, neighborhood health centers, and health maintenance organizations.
(17) The best preprocessing is a nonlinear "variant" filtering, where each pixel is replaced by the average of the 3 X 3 neighborhood having the smallest variance.
(18) Potential explanations for these observations are presented, including the possibility that odors serve as a sensory cue for the manifestation of stress-related illness (or heightened awareness of underlying symptoms) among individuals concerned about the quality of their neighborhood environment.
(19) Weekly releases of first-instar Toxorhynchites splendens larvae were made in household water storage containers in a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, between April 1987 and April 1988.
(20) I’ve always had feelings about the police here.” Most of the residents and people working in the neighborhood on Wednesday didn’t want to speak on the record about their experience in the area.