hat
IPA: hˈæt
noun
- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
- (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- (video games) A hat switch.
- (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
- (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
- (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
- (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
- Initialism of highest astronomical tide.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.
- (electronics) Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer
verb
- (transitive) To place a hat on.
- (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
- (intransitive) To shop for hats.
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Examples of "hat" in Sentences
- He is wearing a very natty hat.
- He wears boots, gloves, a kerchief, and a ten gallon hat.
- I've been told the hat is my least objectionable quality.
- The red figure wears the same hat and mask in the background.
- The villains in the steampunk anime Steamboy wear bowler hats.
- He wears a blue bandanna around his neck and a light brown hat.
- The campaign hat also should not be confused with a slouch hat.
- Wear a nicely ventilated hat and keep to the shade in the street.
- He wears a khaki shirt with a red bandanna, black legs, and a bush hat.
- Dastardly dresses in purple and wears a red and purple striped puffy hat.
- I never had yet a piece of feather on a hat, and your hat is all feathers.
- He carries a lasso and wears boots, gloves, a kerchief, and a ten gallon hat.
- When she clapped on what she called a hat, you wondered whether a heron hadn't built its nest on her head.
- And, if I say, The boy's hat is _on_ his head, you perceive that _on_ shows the relation between _hat_ and _head_.
- With us, the removal of the hat is an expression of reverence for the place we enter, or rather of Him who is worshipped there.
- One of the lower grade wears a very capacious shovel hat, projecting as much in front as behind, and looking very like a double-ended coal-heaver's _hat_.
- This place on the back of your head, where there is a bump as big as a hickory nut, is what we call the hat rack bump, because you can hang your hat on it.
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- (_Goes to table_ B.C. _and takes up_ GEORGE'S _cap in mistake for his hat and is moving towards double-doors when_ GEORGE, _noting this, picks up_ PIM'S _hat from_ L. _of stage where it has been left from previous_ ACT, _and crosses with it to_ PIM.)
- There was Mick, what he called his hat stuck on the back of his head, and what was left of his coat-tails flying in the air behind him, heading for the first stone wall, and, before you could say "knife," he was over it like a bird, across the road, over the wall the other side, with a "whoop-la" that you could have heard in the cathedral in Limerick.