hat

Noun

hat (plural hats)

1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:

     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.

2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), →ISBN, p.121:

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

3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

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

4. (video games) A hat switch.
   • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:

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

5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) = háček
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1

     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.”

6. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

Verb

hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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

2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
   • 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929,

     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.

Verb

hat

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit

   When I axed him why he hat 'im. He saidː "I ne know, I ne know, mate".

Inflection

Numeral

hat

1. (cardinal) six

Verb

hat

1. affect, have influence
2. seem like

Noun

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

1. hatred, hate

Verb

hat

1. imperative of hate

Derived terms

• hatar
• hatefull

Adjective

hāt

1. hot, fierce

   Ðeos wyrt byþ cenned on hatum stowum ― This plant is grown in hot places.

Noun

hāt n

1. a promise

Declension

Related terms

• hata
• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

Noun

hat

1. hat

Adverb

hat

1. hard
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:19 (translation here):

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

Declension