Meaning of hat | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. Initialism of highest astronomical tide.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   figuratively
4. butterfly pea (Clitorea ternatea)
5. Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
6. Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
   figuratively
7. Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
8. The lottery or draw itself.
   broadly, figuratively
9. A hat switch.
10. The circumflex symbol.
11. The háček symbol.
    nonstandard, rare
12. The caret symbol ^.
    informal
13. User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
    Internet
14. A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
    obsolete

Equivalents

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!”

“It's all a matter of hats, Minister.”

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

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

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

“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.””

“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.”

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