hat
//hæt//
Forms
- Plural
- hats
- present (v1)
- hat
- past (v2)
- hatted
- past participle (v3)
- hatted
- present participle
- hatting
- 3rd person singular
- hats
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.
- Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!
- 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.A 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.Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
- We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
4.A hat switch.
- The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
1.To appoint as cardinal.
2.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.
3.To shop for hats.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2028
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.