hat
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
A hat switch.
Verb 4 meanings
To place a hat on.
To appoint as cardinal.
To shop for hats.
To collapse with a template a part of a discussion due to it being overly long, disruptive, or already addressed.
Etymology
From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort.
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HAT at a glance
HAT has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + T 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,774 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hat
All rhymes- THAT7
- WHAT10
- CHAT9
- SOMEWHAT16
- PHAT9
- SHAT7
- ASSHAT9
- GHAT8
- CHITCHAT18
- BHAT9
- KHAT11
- HARDHAT14
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