hat

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /hæt/

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• (Canada, California, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [hat]

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• Rhymes: -æt

A rabbi in a kolpik hat.

From Middle English hat, from Old English hæt (“head-covering, hat”), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀‎ (xaoda, “hat”), Welsh caddu (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

A Panama hat.

hat (plural hats)

1. 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.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:

     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.

   • 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”‎, performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell and J. J. Abrams:

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

2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), →ISBN, p.121:

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

3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

      We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.

4. (video games) A hat switch.
   • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:

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

5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1

     I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”

6. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
7. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

• See also Thesaurus:headgear

• Sranan Tongo: ati

• take one's hat off to

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

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

     After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
   • 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929,

     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.

hat

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

   When I axed him why he hat 'im, he said, "I ne know, I ne know, mate."

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• hat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ATH, aht, tha

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

• IPA^(key): [had̥]

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

1. hat

• IPA^(key): /hat/

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• Rhymes: -at

hat

1. Third-person singular present of haben.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒt]

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Khanty хәт (xət).

hat

1. six

• hatodik
• hatos
• hatszor
• hatszoros

• öt < 6 < hét

hat

1. (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work

   Synonyms: hatásos, működik, beválik

2. (intransitive) to affect, have influence on

   Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol

3. (intransitive) to seem, appear

   Synonyms: tűnik, látszik

(With verbal prefixes):

• kihat
• meghat
• visszahat

hat

1. past and passive participle of har

• IPA^(key): /hat̪ˠ/

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

• IPA^(key): /haːt/

hat

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
3. second-person plural preterite indicative of hunn

hat

1. second-person plural present indicative of haen
2. second-person plural imperative of haen

hat (plural haat)

1. dog

From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

• hatt, hatte, hæt

• IPA^(key): /hat/

hat (plural hattes or hatten)

1. A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
2. A helmet; a hat used as armour.
3. (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
4. (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
5. (rare) A area of hilly woodland.

• hater
• haterynge
• hatten
• hattere
• ketil-hat

• Scots: hat, hatt, hate, hait
• English: hat
• → Irish: hata

• “hat (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

From Old English hete, influenced by haten.

hat

1. Alternative form of hate

From Old Frisian hit.

hat

1. it

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

1. hatred, hate

• hatefull
• hater

• hate (verb)

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

1. hatred, hate

• hatar
• hatefull

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian hēt (West Frisian hjit), Old Saxon hēt, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

hāt

1. hot, fierce

   Ðeos wyrt byþ cenned on hatum stowum ― This plant is grown in hot places.

• Middle English: hot, hat
  • English: hot
  • Scots: hat, hait, hate

From Old English hātan.

hāt n

1. a promise

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

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hat n (uncountable)

1. hatred, haught

• hata
• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

From English hat.

hat

1. hat

From English hard.

hat

1. hard
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:19:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• hatpela
• hatwok

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

hat (definite accusative hatı, plural hatlar)

1. line
2. writing

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

hat (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. letter (written message)