Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: HOODED |
HOODEDAdjective1. Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake. 2. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. 3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. 4. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. 5. Covered with a hood. Imperative & past participle1. Of Hood |
Date "HOODED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Adjective: covering; Verb: superimposed, overlaid, plated; Verb: cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; Verb: imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HOODED |
| English words defined with "HOODED": Aconitum napellus, appareled, attired ♦ bassinet, bladder fern, burnoose, burnous, burnouse ♦ Capistrate, capote, capuchin, Cobra de capello, Coeloglossum viride, Cucullated, Cystophora ♦ disa, Domino, dressed, Dun crow ♦ Enkerchiefed ♦ Fairy bird, Fly-catching warbler, frog orchid ♦ garbed, garmented, genus Cystophora ♦ habilimented, helmet flower, helmetflower, Hoodcap, hooded cloak, hooded coat, hooded sheldrake, Hoody ♦ Indian paintbrush ♦ Kerchieft ♦ monkshood ♦ painted cup, Pheasant duck ♦ robed, Royston crow ♦ Scald crow, Snowl, Spikebill, Summer sheldrake ♦ Tow-head ♦ Water pheasant, Wood duck, Wood sheldrake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HOODED": Caracalla ♦ Domestic Poultry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HOODED": Hood. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937) The Hooded Falcon (1924) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hooded safety cabinets. Credit: CDC. |  | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Hooded Nudibranch, Melibe leonina, is also called the Lion Nudibranch. This mollusk is almost transparent with a slight yellowish-green cast. Unlike other nudibranchs, Melibe have no radula and M. Leonina has no jaws. It uses its oral hood, lined with 2 rows of tentacles to capture prey. Found in offshore kelpbeds and eelgrass meadows. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Plate 20. The Hooded Seal. (Adult and young.) Cystophora cristata (Erxl.), Nilss. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Hooded sprayers operated by field technician Victor Valladares direct herbicide just to areas between rows of grain sorghum. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | Hooded Lancetooth (Ancotrema voyanum), three specimens. Credit: J. S. Applegarth. |  | Black and white wash drawing of Hooded Mergansers by Claremont Gale Pritchard. The artist joined the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in 1948 as a staff illustrator. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Hooded woman. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Snake charmers handling the deadly hooded cobra - Delhi, India. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington, D.C. Hanging hooded bodies of the four conspirators; crowd departing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ludlow, California. Brakeman hanging up a hooded marker as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train approaches. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | In November hooded gunmen killed Heriberto Cardenas in Buenaventura. (references) |
Spain | There were many ETA attacks that caused only property damage; for example, on March 3, numerous hooded ETA supporters threw Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of the newspaper El Correo. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | In June 2000, a hooded gunman shot and wounded Mohammad Enam Wak, an Afghan author, at his home in Peshawar. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HOODED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.90% of the time. "HOODED" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 79.9% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.82% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 6.37% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.9% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 204 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "HOODED": hooded cloak ♦ hooded coat ♦ hooded crow ♦ Hooded gull ♦ hooded ladies' tresses ♦ hooded merganser ♦ hooded overcoat ♦ hooded pitcher plant ♦ hooded seal ♦ hooded sheldrake ♦ hooded skunk ♦ hooded snake ♦ Hooded tern ♦ Hooded warbler. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HOODED": black-hooded, fur-hooded, half-hooded, lister-hooded, multi-hooded, red-hooded, seven-hooded, steeple-hooded, tarry-hooded, white-hooded. | |
Containing "HOODED": purple-hooded orchis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "HOODED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbuluar me kapuç. (various references) | |
Arabic | ذو غطاء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с качулка, качулат (crested, tufted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 戴头巾. (various references) | |
Czech | s kapucí, maskovaný. (various references) | |
Danish | hjelmskallesluger (hooded merganser). (various references) | |
Dutch | kuifzaagbek (hooded merganser). (various references) | |
Farsi | کروک دار, روپوش دار, باشلق مانند, باشلق دار. (various references) | |
French | placé sous capot, encapuchonné. (various references) | |
German | verdeckt (concealed, covers, masked), mit kapuze. (various references) | |
Greek | necrosyrtes monachus (hooded vulture, necrosyrtes monachus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכוס" (covered), מבור"ס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csuklyás (cowled), vak (be blinded, blind, dry, sightless, unseeing, visionless), szemellenzős (blinkered), sisakos, kapucnis, kámzsás, fejkötős, búbos (cristate). (various references) | |
Italian | necrosyrtes monachus (hooded vulture, necrosyrtes monachus), gabbana (hooded overcoat), cornacchia nera (carrion, hooded crow), cornacchia grigia (carrion, hooded crow), capovaccaio pileato (hooded vulture, necrosyrtes monachus). (various references) | |
Manx | bayrn bussallagh er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodedhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necrosyrtes monachus (hooded vulture, necrosyrtes monachus), merganso-cabeçudo (hooded merganser), abutre-de-capuz (hooded vulture, necrosyrtes monachus). (various references) | |
Russian | спрятанный (hidden, wrapped up in), с капюшоном, закрытый (close, closed, enclosed, high-necked, occlusal, shut, unopened). (various references) | |
Scottish | feannag (a hooded crow, a lazy-bed, hooded crow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | s kapuljačom, ćubast. (various references) | |
Spanish | encapuchado (masked). (various references) | |
Swedish | gråkråka (hooded crow). (various references) | |
Turkish | tepeli (crested, humped, humpy, peaked, tufted, tufty), sorguçlu (crested, tufted, tufty), kukuletalı, kapüşonlu, başlıklı (headed, helmeted), başlık şeklinde olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схований (hidden), закритий капюшоном, закритий (close, closed, covered, enclosed, private, shut, spaceless), з капюшоном. (various references) | |
Welsh | cycyllog (cowled). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HOODED": hoodedness, hoodednesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HOODED": unhooded. (additional references) | |
| |
"HOODED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hiode, hobdayed, hodad, hoded, Hodeida, Hodel, holded, hoodad, hoodah, hooden, Hooder, hoodet, Hoodie, hooned, hooome, hoorded, hooved, houden, hudd, hudded, Khodad, rhodope. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOODED" (pronounced huh"dud) |
| 4 | -uh" d u d | wooded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-h-o-o" | |
-1 letter: oohed. | |
-2 letters: dodo, eddo, hoed, hood, ohed. | |
-3 letters: doe, edh, hod, hoe, odd, ode, oho, ooh. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, eh, he, ho, od, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-h-o-o" | |
+2 letters: hoodooed, unhooded, woodshed. | |
+3 letters: bloodshed, hotdogged, woodsheds. | |
+4 letters: bloodsheds, bondholder, coolheaded, dishonored, hodgepodge, hoodedness, hoodwinked, maidenhood, photodiode, woodenhead. | |
+5 letters: bondholders, borohydride, dodecaphony, hodgepodges, loudmouthed, maidenhoods, photodiodes, shadowboxed, toddlerhood, widowerhood, woodenheads, woodshedded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
