Definition of "hat" in Englisch

noun

1. (clothing) 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.

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

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

4. (video games) A hat switch.

5. (typography, mathematics) The circumflex symbol.

6. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.

   • 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.”

7. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.

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

9. (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).

verb

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.

2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.

3. (intransitive) To shop for hats.

verb

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