HAT

hat

(noun) an informal term for a person’s role; “he took off his politician’s hat and talked frankly”

hat, chapeau, lid

(noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

hat

(verb) put on or wear a hat; “He was unsuitably hatted”

hat

(verb) furnish with a hat

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

HAT (plural HATs)

Initialism of highest astronomical tide.

(medicine, uncountable) Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.

(electronics) Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer

Anagrams

• ATH, aht, tha

Etymology 1

Noun

hat (plural hats)

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.

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

(figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.

(figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

(video games) A hat switch.

(typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.

(programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.

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

(Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Synonyms

• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft

Hyponyms

• See also headgear

Verb

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

(transitive) To place a hat on.

(transitive) To appoint as cardinal.

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

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

Anagrams

• ATH, aht, tha

Source: Wiktionary

Hat, a.

Definition: Hot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hat,

Definition: sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat abstinence." Piers Plowman.

Hat, n. Etym: [AS. hæt, hætt; akin to Dan. hat, Sw. hatt, Icel. hattr a hat, höttr hood, D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, and prob. to L. cassis helmet. Hood.]

Definition: A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. Hat block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed.

– To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often received in a hat. [Collog.] Lowell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition