hood vs law

hood

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

  • Person wearing a hoodie. 

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

  • 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).) 

  • 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) 

  • An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. 

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

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

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

  • An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja). 

  • Gangster, thug. 

  • A soft top of a convertible car or carriage. 

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

  • Neighborhood. 

verb
  • To cover something with a hood. 

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

law

noun
  • A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft. 

  • Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences. 

  • A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers). 

  • The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. 

  • The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. 

  • The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc). 

  • Common law, as contrasted with equity. 

  • Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules. 

  • One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos. 

  • Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc). 

  • A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. 

  • An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair. 

  • Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.) 

  • A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.) 

  • A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. 

  • A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. 

  • The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules. 

  • One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC. 

  • An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".) 

  • A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language. 

verb
  • To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate. 

  • To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern. 

  • To enforce the law. 

  • To subject to legal restrictions. 

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