Hat vs Helm - What's the difference?
hat | helm |
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 .”
(nautical) The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
(maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat.
(figurative) A position of leadership or control.
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One at the place of direction or control; a guide; a director.
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(heraldry) A helmet.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A helve.
To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
* Tennyson
(by extension) To lead (a project, etc.).
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(archaic) A helmet.
:* Luken sweord longe, leiden o þe helmen . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
:: (They drew their swords and put on their helmen .)
:* Þe helm of hel and þe swerd of þe Spirit. — An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, Attributed to Wycliffe, 1475
:* The kynge Ban be-gan to laugh vndir his helme . — Merlin, 1500
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A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
As a verb hat
is has.As a proper noun helm is
the only named wind in the british isles blows westward form the pennine fells over cumbria and is often accompanied by a line of clouds on top of the hills called the helm bar.hat
English
Noun
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* take one's hat off toExternal links
* ("hat" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----helm
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(wikipedia helm)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the helm of the Commonwealth
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- the helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers
Derived terms
* at the helm * take the helmVerb
(en verb)- A wild wave overbears the bark, / And him that helms it.
John Grant with the Royal Northern Sinfonia review – positively spine-tingling", The Guardian , 1 December 2014:
- “I wanted to change the world, but I could not even change my underwear,” sings John Grant at the piano, in a luxuriant baritone croon as thick and healthy as his beard. It’s hard to reconcile the guy who once struggled to so much as put on clean pants back in the bad old days – well-storied, not least through his own songs – with the one warmly and gracefully helming this complex, prestigious production – the penultimate date on a tour of packed concert halls, backed by an orchestra.
- the business he hath helmed
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en-noun)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="A fearful apparition," murmured Norman of Torn. "No wonder he keeps his helm closed." }}
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