Disdain vs Hat - What's the difference?
disdain | hat |
(uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
* William Shakespeare, Much ado about Nothing :
(obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
* Spenser
(obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xvii. 42
* The Qur'an, trans. , verse 170
*:The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain' to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him ; and whosoever '''disdains''' His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who ' disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}
(obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXI:
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.
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*: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.
(lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
*1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3,
*:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
(lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
# The lottery or draw itself.
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(lb) A hat switch.
*2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
*:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
*1997 October 6th, “
*: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 .”
As verbs the difference between disdain and hat
is that disdain is to regard (someone or something) with strong contempt while hat is has.As a noun disdain
is (uncountable) a feeling of contempt or scorn.disdain
English
Noun
(-)- The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.
- Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
- Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* condescension, contempt, scorn * See alsoDerived terms
* disdainfulVerb
(en verb)- When the Philistine saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.
citation
- When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned , and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?
Synonyms
* contemn * See alsohat
English
Noun
(en noun)p.121:
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