Hat vs Nose - 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.
*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 protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A snout, the nose of an animal.
The tip of an object.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
The power of smelling.
* Collier
Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
The skill in recognising bouquet.
(by extension) Skill at finding information.
To move cautiously.
To snoop.
To detect by smell or as if by smell.
* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,
To push with one's nose.
* Tennyson
To nuzzle.
To win by a narrow margin.
To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
As verbs the difference between hat and nose
is that hat is has while nose is to move cautiously.As a noun nose is
a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.hat
English
Noun
(en noun)p.121:
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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 ----nose
English
(wikipedia nose)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
- We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
- We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
Synonyms
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* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndromeSee also
* rhino-Verb
(nos)- The ship nosed through the minefield.
- She was nosing around other people’s business.
- If you find him not within
- this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
- stairs into the lobby.
- lambs nosing the mother's udder
- to nose a prayer
- (Cowley)
