hat

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.Examples: "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."; "Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!"

2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.Examples: "It's all a matter of hats, Minister."; "My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother."figuratively

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

4. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.Examples: "We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other."broadlyfiguratively

5. (video games) A hat switch.Examples: "The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls."

6. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.Examples: "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.”"nonstandardrare