hat

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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!

2. 2

   figurativeA particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

   It's all a matter of hats, Minister.

   My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.

3. 3

   figurativeAny receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

4. 4

   figurativeAny receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery. The lottery or draw itself.

   We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.

5. 5

   A hat switch.

   The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

6. 6

   The circumflex symbol.

7. 7

   rareThe háček symbol.

   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.”

8. 8

   informalThe caret symbol ^.

9. 9

   User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

10. 10

    obsoleteA student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

    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

1. 1

   To place a hat on.

   After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

2. 2

   To appoint as cardinal.

   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.

3. 3

   To shop for hats.

   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.

4. 4

   To collapse with a template a part of a discussion due to it being overly long, disruptive, or already addressed.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of hitobsoletesimple past of hit

Forms

plural

hats

past tense

hatted

past participle

hatted

present participle

hatting

third person singular

hats