hat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
computing
engineering
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
publishing
sciences
textiles
typography
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort.
Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
Inflected forms:
form: hats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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!
gloss: A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It's all a matter of hats, Minister.
My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
gloss: Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
gloss: A hat switch.
pos: noun
examples: The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
gloss: The circumflex symbol.
pos: noun
gloss: The háček symbol.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
rare
examples: 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.”
gloss: The caret symbol ^.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: To place a hat on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
gloss: To appoint as cardinal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To shop for hats.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Related words: take one's hat off to
Derived words: 10-gallon hat
Abraham Lincoln hat
Akubra hat
all hat and no cattle
all hat and no cowboy
Alpine hat
America's Hat
angel hat
Asian conical hat
asshat
at the drop of a hat
aureole hat
Australian bush hat
bad hat
baseball hat
Bavarian hat
beach hat
beat into a cocked hat
beer hat
black as my hat
black as your hat
black hat
black top-hat transform
bobble hat
bottom-hat transform
bowler hat
bowler hat out
bowl hat
brass hat
brick in one's hat
bucket hat
buckled hat
buckle hat
buy yourself a hat
campaign hat
carpenter's hat
cartwheel hat
chimney-pot hat
Chinese hat snail
chip hat
church hat
cocked hat
cocked hat curve
cocked hat double
cocktail hat
Coke hat
conical hat
coolie hat
coon-skin hat
coonskin hat
Cordovan hat
cork hat
Cossack hat
cowboy hat
cowgirl hat
craphat
crap hat
crush hat
Dappy hat
Davey Crockett hat
Davy Crockett hat
deerslayer hat
deerstalker hat
does the Pope wear a funny hat
doff one's hat to
double-hat
dunce hat
eat one's hat
fire shovel hat
flat as my hat
flat as your hat
four winds hat
fruit hat
Gainsborough hat
gimme hat
give hat
give someone his hat
Gordie Howe hat trick
gray hat
grey hat
gypsy hat
halo hat
hand someone his hat
hang one's hat
hang one's hat on
hang onto your hat
hang up one's hat
hard hat
hatband
hat block
hatbox
hatbrim
hatbrush
hatcheck
hat dance
hatfish
hatful
hatguard
hat hair
hat head
Hat Head
hatinator
hat in hand
hatiquette
hatless
hatlike
hatmaker
hatmaking
hat matrix
hatnote
hat on a hat
hat over the windmill
hat palm
hat parade
hat peach
hatpeg
hatpin
hatrack
hat-rack
hat rack
hatrail
hats off
hat stand
hat-stand
hatstand
hatstring
hatter
hat tip
hattock
hat tournament
hat town
hat tree
hat trick
hat-trick
hatty
have a brick in one's hat
high-hat
hi-hat
hold onto your hat
Homburg hat
home is where you hang your hat
inverted hat
jim hat
jimmy hat
kettle hat
knock into a cocked hat
Kossuth hat
lampshade hat
legionnaire hat
little hat
low-hat
Medicine Hat
Mexican hat
Mexican hat cell
Mexican hat dance
Mexican hat plant
Mickey Mouse hat
moneyhatting
mushroom hat
my hat
old-hat
old hat
opera hat
paddy hat
Pamela hat
Panama hat
Panama hat palm
paper hat
party hat
pass round the hat
pass the hat
pick from a hat
pick out of a hat
picture hat
Pilgrim hat
pilgrim hat
Pilgrim's hat
pilgrim's hat
pillbox hat
pink hat
plug hat
Polly Crockett hat
pope hat
pork pie hat
porkpie hat
pot hat
pressman's hat
printer's hat
pull a rabbit from a hat
pull a rabbit out of a hat
pull out of a hat
pull out of the hat
purple hat therapy
pussy hat
put a hat on a hat
put one's name in the hat
put that in your hat
put that in your hat and wear it
rainhat
rain hat
rasta hat
red hat
Red Hatter
rice hat
sailor hat
Santa hat
sauna hat
sedge hat
you Jimmy hat
service hat
shaving hat
shovel hat
ski hat
slouch hat
small hat
steeple hat
stovepipe hat
straw-hat
straw hat
sun hat
sunhat
take one's hat off to
talk through one's hat
tembel hat
ten-gallon hat
terai hat
throw into a cocked hat
throw one's hat in the ring
throw one's hat into the ring
throw one's hat over the fence
throw one's hat over the wall
throw one's hat over the windmill
throw one's name in the hat
tin-foil hat
tin foil hat
tinfoil hat
tin hat
tiny hat
tip of the hat
tip one's hat
top hat
top-hat pension
top-hat plan
top-hat transform
toss one's hat in the ring
toss one's hat into the ring
toss one's name in the hat
trapper hat
triple-hat
trooper hat
trucker hat
turdhat
Tyrolean hat
under one's hat
unhat
wear too many hats
wear two hats
Welsh hat
white hat
white top-hat transform
wideawake hat
wide-awake hat
witch hat
witch's hat
with hat in hand
wizard hat
wizard's hat
woolhat
woolly hat
rehat
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