Hat

Quick meaning: Hat is a noun meaning (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Meaning

(figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
2. (video games) A hat switch.
3. (typography, mathematics) The circumflex symbol.
4. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
5. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
6. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
7. (clothing) 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.

Example Sentences

It's all a matter of hats, Minister.

Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!

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

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

Word Forms

• hats
• hatting
• hatted

Synonyms for hat

Depending on context, synonyms include tuft, chapeau, lid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chapeau, lid, fedora, beret, sombrero, beanie.

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