Pronunciations (4)
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/hæt/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- US
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/hat/
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- California
- Canada
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/hæ̞ʔ/
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- Northwestern
- US
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/hɛt/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
- Northern-US
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.
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There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!
A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
Usage- Figurative
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It's all a matter of hats, Minister.
My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
Usage- Figurative
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery. The lottery or draw itself.
Usage- broadly
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We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
A hat switch.
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The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
The circumflex symbol.
The háček symbol.
Usage- nonstandard
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I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”
The caret symbol ^.
Usage- Informal
User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
Usage- Internet
A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
Usage- Obsolete
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I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.
Verb
To place a hat on.
Usage- Transitive
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After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
To appoint as cardinal.
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It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
To shop for hats.
Usage- Intransitive
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We might just go hatting this afternoon […]
Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
To collapse with a template a part of a discussion due to it being overly long, disruptive, or already addressed.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
an informal term for a person's role
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he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly
Verb
put on or wear a hat
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He was unsuitably hatted
furnish with a hat