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Hat vs Hap - What's the difference?

hat | hap |

As a verb hat

is has.

As a noun hap is

pah.

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 .”
    • Hyponyms
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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)

    Anagrams

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    hap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hap, . The verb is from (etyl) happen, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
    • URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
    HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps :
    Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
  • * Spenser
    • whether art it was or heedless hap
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Cursed be good haps', and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on ' haps .
  • * 1851 , :
    • He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap ; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
    Derived terms
    * hapful * haphazard * hapless * haply * happen * happenstance * happy * hapsome * mayhap * mishap * perhaps
    See also
    * what's the haps

    Verb

    (happ)
  • (literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
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  • (literary) To happen to.
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    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.

    • Verb

    (happ)
  • (dialect) To wrap or clothe.
  • * Dr. J. Brown
    • The surgeon happed her up carefully.
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