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 .”

Noun

(en noun)

An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

* , chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs' for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm' chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair , and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

Chairperson.

* {{quote-book, year=1658-9, date=March 23, author=Thomas Burton, title=Diary

, passage=The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys

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, passage=It can hardly be conceived that the Chair would fail to gain the support of the House.}}

(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

(rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.

(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

The electric chair.

A distinguished professorship at a university.

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An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

(Shakespeare)

* (Alexander Pope)

Think what an equipage thou hast in air, / And view with scorn two pages and a chair .