Hood vs. Wood — 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

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.

A thing resembling a hood in shape or use.

The hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber

A gangster or similar violent criminal

An area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees

A neighbourhood, especially one in an urban area

The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.

Put a hood on or over

This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.

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

A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.

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

A forest.

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

(Music) A woodwind.

A metal cover or cowl for a hearth or stove.

(Sports) Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft.

A carriage top.

To fuel with wood.

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

To cover with trees; forest.

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

To gather or be supplied with wood.

A hoodlum; a thug.

Made or consisting of wood; wooden.

A rowdy or violent young person.

Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.

A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.

Woods Living, growing, or present in forests

Variant of hood3.

Mentally deranged.

To supply or cover with a hood.

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

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

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.

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

A forested or wooded area.

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

Firewood.

Particular parts of conveyances

A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

(music) A woodwind instrument.

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

An erection of the penis.

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

Chess pieces.

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

A peckerwood.

(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).

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

Various body parts

To hide behind trees.

(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).

(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

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

(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

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)

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

(slang) Gangster, thug.

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

Neighborhood.

To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

(UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

To cover something with a hood.

To take or get a supply of wood.

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

A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.

State; condition.

The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

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

The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

Anything resembling a hood in form or use

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

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

The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

Same as hoodlum.

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

Same as neighborhood.

United States film actress (1938-1981)

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

English conductor (1869-1944)

To cover; to hide; to blind.

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

An aggressive and violent young criminal

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

The folding roof of a carriage

A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available

A headdress that protects the head and face

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

Cover with a hood;