Hood vs. Shroud — 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

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.

A thing resembling a hood in shape or use.

A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet.

A gangster or similar violent criminal

Something that conceals, protects, or screens

A neighbourhood, especially one in an urban area

(Nautical) One of a set of ropes or wire cables stretched from the masthead to the sides of a vessel to support the mast.

Put a hood on or over

A similar supporting line for a smokestack or comparable structure.

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

One of the ropes connecting the harness and canopy of a parachute.

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

To wrap (a corpse) in burial clothing.

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

To envelop and obscure or shut off from sight

A metal cover or cowl for a hearth or stove.

To envelop or be associated with and make difficult to understand

A carriage top.

(Archaic) To shelter; protect.

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

To take cover; find shelter.

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

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

A hoodlum; a thug.

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

A rowdy or violent young person.

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.

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

Variant of hood3.

(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.

To supply or cover with a hood.

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

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

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

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

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

To cover with a shroud.

Particular parts of conveyances

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

A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

To take shelter or harbour.

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

To lop the branches from (a tree).

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

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

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

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

(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).

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Various body parts

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

(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).

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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

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.

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)

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

(slang) Gangster, thug.

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

Neighborhood.

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

(UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

To take shelter or harbor.

To cover something with a hood.

To lop. See Shrood.

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

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

State; condition.

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

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

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Anything resembling a hood in form or use

Cover as if with a shroud;

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

Form a cover like a shroud;

Same as hoodlum.

Wrap in a shroud;

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;