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Hat vs Bonnet - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hat and bonnet

is that hat is 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 while bonnet is a type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.

As a verb bonnet is

to take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

hat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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, p.121:
  • *: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, “ Patricia V. Lehman]” (user name), [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/topics?hl=en rec.antiques] (Usenet newsgroup), “[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/browse_thread/thread/67b2bb8b89588055/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hat%22#8496fc478c032593 Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia]”, [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/msg/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
  • *: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 .”
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    Derived terms

    {{der3, at the drop of a hat , bowler hat , brick in one's hat , hang one's hat on , hard hat , hatband , hatnote , hat parade , hatpin , hat trick , hatstand , hatter , home is where you hang your hat , put one's name in the hat , take one's hat off to , talk through one's hat , throw one's hat in the ring , pass the hat , under one's hat , wear too many hats , woolly hat}} (-)

    See also

    * take one's hat off to

    External links

    * ("hat" on Wikipedia)

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    bonnet

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Scottish brimless hat) bunnet

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
  • * 1936 , , unnumbered page,
    • In the hall, Scarlett saw a bonnet' and put it on hurriedly, tying the ribbons under her chin. It was Melanie's black mourning '''bonnet''' and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she could not recall where she had put her own ' bonnet .
  • * 2008 , Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, Acres of Diamonds , page 35,
    • “Now,” said he, “put such a bonnet' as that in the show window.” He did not fill his show-window up town with a lot of hats and ' bonnets to drive people away, and then sit on the back stairs and bawl because people went to Wanamaker's to trade.
  • A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
  • * 2008 , The Editors of Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual , page 297,
    • Make sure that the power buffer's lamb's-wool bonnet' is clean. Change or rinse the '''bonnet''' frequently to avoid scratching the finish. Use the ' bonnet as a mitten to buff in the crevices and other areas that the power buffer can't reach.
  • (Australia, British, NZ, South Africa, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.
  • * 2003 , Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things , page 189,
    • The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and trying to climb up onto the bonnet .
  • * 2004 , David Spencer, quoted in Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car , page 217,
    • People were reluctant to slam a bonnet' shut in those days. One just did not slam ' bonnets and doors.
  • * 2009 , Ciaran Simms, Denis Wood, Pedestrian and Cyclist Impact: A Biomechanical Perspective , page 38,
    • By about 20 ms, there is contact between the bonnet leading edge and the pedestrian upper leg/pelvis on the struck side, the severity of which depends on the vehicle shape.
  • * 2009 , Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell, Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the R.A.F. , page 308,
    • Stoll was still standing on the car bonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.
  • (nautical) A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
    • (Hakluyt)
  • (obsolete, slang) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid.
  • The second stomach of a ruminant.
  • Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
  • # A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
  • # A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
  • # A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
  • # A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
  • # In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

    • Synonyms

    * (Scottish brimless hat) tam o'shanter * (cover over the engine of a motor car) hood (US)

    Derived terms

    * bonnet drama * bonnet macaque / bonnet monkey * bee in one's bonnet * sunbonnet

    See also

    * boot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (dated) To pull the bonnet or cap down over the head of.
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    • (Webster 1913)

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