Hood vs. Shroud

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

Hoodnoun

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

Shroudnoun

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Hoodnoun

(automotive) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

Shroudnoun

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

(nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Hoodnoun

(slang) gangster, thug.

Shroudnoun

(astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch

Hoodnoun

(slang) neighborhood.

‘What’s goin’ down in the hood?’;

Shroudnoun

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Hoodnoun

(UK) person wearing a hoodie.

Shroudverb

To cover with a shroud.

Hoodverb

To cover something with a hood.

Shroudverb

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

‘The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.’; ‘The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.’;

Hoodadjective

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

Shroudverb

To take shelter or harbour.

Hoodnoun

State; condition.

‘How could thou ween, through that disguised hoodTo hide thy state from being understood?’;

Shroudverb

To lop the branches from (a tree).

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

‘Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.’;

Hoodnoun

Anything resembling a hood in form or use

Shroudnoun

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

Hoodnoun

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

Shroudnoun

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

‘Jura answers through her misty shroud.’;

Hoodnoun

Same as hoodlum.

Shroudnoun

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

‘The shroud to which he wonHis fair-eyed oxen.’; ‘A vault, or shroud, as under a church.’;

Hoodnoun

Same as neighborhood.

Shroudnoun

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

‘The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad.’;

Hoodverb

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

‘The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.’;

Shroudnoun

A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

Hoodverb

To cover; to hide; to blind.

‘While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyesThus with my hat, and sigh and say, "Amen."’;

Shroudnoun

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Hoodnoun

an aggressive and violent young criminal

Shroudverb

To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

‘The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.’;

Hoodnoun

metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

Shroudverb

To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

‘One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.’; ‘Some tempest rise,And blow out all the stars that light the skies,To shroud my shame.’;

Hoodnoun

the folding roof of a carriage

Shroudverb

To take shelter or harbor.

‘If your stray attendance be yet lodged,Or shroud within these limits.’;

Hoodnoun

a headdress that protects the head and face

Shroudverb

To lop. See Shrood.

Hoodnoun

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’;

Shroudnoun

a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute

Hoodverb

cover with a hood;

‘The bandits were hooded’;

Shroudnoun

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

Hoodnoun

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

‘a jacket with a detachable hood’;

Shroudnoun

burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Hoodnoun

a large hood-shaped piece of fabric, typically trimmed with fur or a similar material, worn over the shoulders of a university gown or a surplice to indicate the wearer's degree.

Shroudverb

cover as if with a shroud;

‘The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery’;

Hoodnoun

a leather covering for a hawk's head.

Shroudverb

form a cover like a shroud;

‘Mist shrouded the castle’;

Hoodnoun

a thing resembling a hood in shape or use.

Shroudverb

wrap in a shroud;

‘shroud the corpses’;

Hoodnoun

a folding waterproof cover of a car, pram, etc.

Shroud

Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin or Tachrichim (burial shrouds) that Jews are dressed in for burial.

Hoodnoun

the hinged metal canopy covering the engine of a motor vehicle; the bonnet.

Hoodnoun

a canopy to protect users of machinery or to remove fumes from it.

Hoodnoun

a structure or marking resembling a hood on the head or neck of an animal

‘the hood of a rearing cobra’;

Hoodnoun

the upper part of the flower of a plant such as a dead-nettle.

Hoodnoun

a gangster or similar violent criminal

‘I been beaten up by hoods’;

Hoodnoun

a neighbourhood, especially one in an urban area

‘I've lived in the hood for 15 years’;

Hoodverb

put a hood on or over

‘she was forced into a car, hooded, and taken to a cell’;