different between hood vs visor

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?d/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [h??d], [h??d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English h?d, from Proto-Germanic *h?daz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan ????????????????? (xåda), Old Persian ???????????? (x-u-d /xaud?/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to cover”). More at hat.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
2. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
4. (automotive, chiefly Britain) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
5. (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
6. (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
   • 2004, D. Michael Abrashoff, Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.

   • 2015, Max Lucado, Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life, Thomas Nelson (?ISBN), page 71:

     I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well.

7. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
8. (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).)
   • 1830, A Treatise on Marine Architecture, page 260:

     Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its proper dimensions, the tenons cut, and their ...

   • 1874, Samuel James P. Thearle, Naval architecture: a treatise on laying off and building wood, iron, and composite ships. [With] Plates, page 360:

     The fore hoods end at a rabbet cut in the wood stem (see Plate CXVIII.), and the after hoods end at a rabbet prepared in the yellow metal body post. The fore hoods are fastened to the bottom plating as elsewhere; but in the stem they have  ...

   • 1940, Lauchlan McKay, Richard Cornelius McKay, The Practical hip-builder, page 62:

     But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]

Synonyms

• (engine cover): bonnet, cowl

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cuculliform (hood-shaped)

Verb

hood (third-person singular simple present hoods, present participle hooding, simple past and past participle hooded)

1. To cover something with a hood.

   Antonym: unhood

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• 2004, George Fletcher Bass, Serçe Liman?: An Eleventh-century Shipwreck, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 516:

  Hooding ends [Hoods, Hood ends] The ends of planks that fit into the stem and sternpost rabbets.

Etymology 2

Clipping of hoodlum.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (slang) Gangster, thug.
   • 1968, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, Chapter 7

     Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.

Alternative forms

• 'hood

Adjective

hood (not comparable)

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

Translations

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (African American Vernacular English, slang) Neighborhood.

Usage notes

Particularly used for poor US inner-city black neighborhoods. Also used more generally, as a casual neutral term for “neighborhood”, but marked by strong associations.

Synonyms

• (poor neighborhood, esp. black): ghetto
• (neighborhood): nabe, neighborhood

Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.

Noun

hood (plural hoods)

1. (Britain) Person wearing a hoodie.

Anagrams

• Hodo, hodo-

Manx

Pronoun

hood (emphatic form hoods)

1. (informal) second-person singular of hug

   to you

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hode, hod, hude, hudde, hoode

Etymology

From Old English h?d, from Proto-Germanic *h?daz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?d/
• Rhymes: -o?d

Noun

hood (plural hoodes)

1. hood (part of a garment):
   1. A hood as a symbol of rank (of the church and of guilds).
   2. A hood made of chain mail used as head armour.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) Any sort of protective cloaking or covering.

Derived terms

• hoden
• hoder
• hodles
• hodynge

Descendants

• English: hood
• Scots: hude, huid

References

• “h??d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hâved.

Noun

hood n (plural hööd)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) head

   at hood sködle

   to shake one's head

English

Alternative forms

• vizor

Etymology

From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?va?z?/
• Rhymes: -a?z?(?)

Noun

visor (plural visors)

1. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
2. A mask for the face.
   • 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.

     No visor does become black villainy
     So well as soft and tender flattery.

3. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

Related terms

• vizard

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From vide? (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine v?sum +? -tor, from Proto-Italic *wid?? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.sor/, [?u?i?s??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /??i?.sor/, [??i?sor]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.sor/, [?vi?s??r]

Noun

v?sor m (genitive v?s?ris); third declension

1. one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
2. one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

v?sor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?s? (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)

References

• visor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1684
• visor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 3519

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

visor f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?so?/, [bi?so?]

Noun

visor m (plural visores)

1. visor

Swedish

Noun

visor

1. indefinite plural of visa