Hood vs. Hat — What's the Difference?

A covering for the head and neck with an opening for the face, typically forming part of a coat or cloak

A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory.In the past, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote nationality, branch of service, rank or regiment.

A thing resembling a hood in shape or use.

A covering for the head, especially one with a shaped crown and brim.

A gangster or similar violent criminal

A head covering of distinctive color and shape worn as a symbol of office.

A neighbourhood, especially one in an urban area

The office symbolized by the wearing of such a head covering.

Put a hood on or over

A role or office symbolized by or as if by the wearing of different hats

A loose pliable covering for the head and neck, often attached to a robe or jacket.

To supply or cover with a hat.

An ornamental draping of cloth hung from the shoulders of an academic or ecclesiastical robe.

A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

A sack placed over the head of a falcon to keep it quiet.

(figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

A metal cover or cowl for a hearth or stove.

(figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.

A carriage top.

The lottery or draw itself.

The hinged metal lid over the engine of a motor vehicle.

(video games) A hat switch.

(Zoology) A colored marking or an expanded part, such as a crest, on or near the head of an animal.

The háček symbol.

A hoodlum; a thug.

The caret symbol ^.

A rowdy or violent young person.

(internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.

A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Variant of hood3.

(transitive) To place a hat on.

To supply or cover with a hood.

(transitive) To appoint as cardinal.

A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

(intransitive) To shop for hats.

A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.

Hot.

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.

Particular parts of conveyances

Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

An informal term for a person's role;

The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

Put on or wear a hat;

A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.

Furnish with a hat

A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

(nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).

Various body parts

(ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).

(colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)

(slang) Gangster, thug.

Neighborhood.

(UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

To cover something with a hood.

Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

State; condition.

A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment

Anything resembling a hood in form or use

The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

Same as hoodlum.

Same as neighborhood.

To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.

To cover; to hide; to blind.

An aggressive and violent young criminal

Metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

The folding roof of a carriage

A headdress that protects the head and face

Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine;

Cover with a hood;