hats

/hæts/

noun

  1. 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.

  2. 2

    A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

  3. 3

    Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.

  4. 4

    A hat switch.

  5. 5

    The háček symbol.

  6. 6

    The caret symbol ^.

  7. 7

    User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

  8. 8

    (Cambridge University slang) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To place a hat on.

  2. 2

    To appoint as cardinal.

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