Hat vs Cover - What's the difference?
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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.
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*: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 .”
A lid.
A hiding from view.
A front and back of a book or magazine.
A top sheet of a bed.
A cover charge.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal .
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, chapter=1 (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
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*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
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To deal with.
*2010 (publication date), "Contributors", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
*:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .
To be enough money for.
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(label) To act as a replacement.
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(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
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(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
To provide insurance coverage for.
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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
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To protect or control (a piece or square).
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As a verb hat
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cover version, cover song.hat
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Noun
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Hyponyms
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{{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 toExternal links
* ("hat" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----cover
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(wikipedia cover)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
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Derived terms
* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau coverAdjective
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(en verb)Charles T. Ambrose
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