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.
- 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.
- He carries a lasso and wears boots, gloves, a kerchief, and a ten gallon hat.
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