noun
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!
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.
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
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.
A hat switch.
The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
verb
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.
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.
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.
noun
Initialism of highest astronomical tide.
Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.
Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer.