Noun

(en noun)

A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.

* (Alexander Pope)

Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

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, year = 1901 , title = The Defendant , first = G. K. , last = Chesterton , authorlink = G. K. Chesterton , page = 166 , passage = “My country, right or wrong”, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober”. }}

* {{quote-book

, year = 1953 , chapter = Purely Personal Prejudices , title = Strictly Personal , first = Sydney J. , last = Harris , authorlink = Sydney J. Harris , publisher = Regnery , page = 228 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=DLcEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA228&dq=patriot , passage = The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. }}

* 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]

Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots . Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

(archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.

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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 .”