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
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
• ATH, aht, tha
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).
• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft
• See also headgear
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.
hat
(Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
• 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
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
