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HAT
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Irregular inflected forms: hatted , hatting
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An informal term for a person's role
Example:
he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hat" is a kind of...):
function; office; part; role (the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hat" is a kind of...):
headdress; headgear (clothing for the head)
Meronyms (parts of "hat"):
crown (the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head)
brim (a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat)
hatband (a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hat"):
tirolean; tyrolean (soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade)
toque (a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs)
titfer (a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: 'tit for tat' rhymes with 'hat'))
sun hat; sunhat (a hat with a broad brim that protects the face from direct exposure to the sun)
sou'wester (waterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front)
sombrero (a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico)
snap-brim hat (a hat with a snap brim)
shovel hat (a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain)
millinery; woman's hat (hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner)
fur hat (a hat made of fur)
fedora; felt hat; homburg; Stetson; trilby (a hat made of felt with a creased crown)
dunce's cap; dunce cap; fool's cap (a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils)
beaver; dress hat; high hat; opera hat; silk hat; stovepipe; top hat; topper (a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur)
deerstalker (a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters)
cowboy hat; ten-gallon hat (a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands)
cocked hat (hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points)
cavalier hat; slouch hat (a soft felt hat with a wide flexible brim)
campaign hat (a broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown; formerly worn by the United States Army and Marine personnel)
bowler; bowler hat; derby; derby hat; plug hat (a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim)
bonnet; poke bonnet (a hat tied under the chin)
boater; leghorn; Panama; Panama hat; sailor; skimmer; straw hat (a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown)
bearskin; busby; shako (tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions)
Derivation:
hat (put on or wear a hat)
hat (furnish with a hat)
hatter (someone who makes and sells hats)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put on or wear a hat
Example:
He was unsuitably hatted
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "hat" is one way to...):
assume; don; get into; put on; wear (put clothing on one's body)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hat"):
bonnet (dress in a bonnet)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
hat (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Furnish with a hat
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "hat" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
hat (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)
Context examples:
I need not say that I rushed for my coat and my hat.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hold on to your hat as everything will start to move fast.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I pulled off my hat, and made a low bow towards the farmer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The hats of the men were blue; the little woman's hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“Now, child,” said he to his own daughter, “what will you have?” “The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,” said she.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr. Jekyll.) Come now; get your hat and take a quick turn with us.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see the ship.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of Where DID you get that tile?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
