Hat vs Hag - What's the difference?
hat | hag |
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 .”
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
* (rfdate) Golding
(pejorative) An ugly old woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, , allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
A hagdon or shearwater.
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus .
To harass; to weary with vexation.
* L'Estrange
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
* Fairfax
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb hat
is has.As a noun hag is
mind, mindset, temper, inclination.hat
English
Noun
(en noun)p.121:
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Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
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* take one's hat off toExternal links
* ("hat" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----hag
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hagge, hegge 'demon, old woman', shortening of (etyl) '', ).1987, E. C. Polomé, R. Bergmann (editor), "Althochdeutsch ''hag(a)zussa'' 'Hexe': Versuch einer neuen Etymologie", ''Althochdeutsch 2 (Wörter und Namen. Forschungsgeschichte) , pages 1107-1112.Noun
(en noun)- [Silenus] that old hag .
- (Crashaw)
- (Blount)
Synonyms
* (witch or sorceress) * (ugly old woman) See also * (fury or she-monster) * (eel-like marine marsipobranch) borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker * (hagdon or shearwater) * (appearance of light and fire on mane or hair) * (fruit of the hagberry)Derived terms
* fag hagVerb
(hagg)- How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.
Etymology 2
Scots ; compare English hack.Noun
(en noun)- This said, he led me over hoults and hags ; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
- (Dugdale)