Headdress vs. Hat — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Headdress and Hat
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Headdress
A covering or ornament for the head.
Hat
A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory.In the past, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote nationality, branch of service, rank or regiment.
Headdress
A hairdo; a coiffure.
Hat
A covering for the head, especially one with a shaped crown and brim.
Headdress
A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
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Hat
A head covering of distinctive color and shape worn as a symbol of office.
Headdress
A hairdo.
Hat
The office symbolized by the wearing of such a head covering.
Headdress
A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire; as, chiefs among the plains Indians had elaborate long headdresses with many feathers.
Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume.
Hat
A role or office symbolized by or as if by the wearing of different hats
Wears two hats—one as parent and one as corporate executive.
Headdress
A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Hat
To supply or cover with a hat.
Headdress
Clothing for the head
Hat
A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
Hat
(figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
Hat
(figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
Hat
The lottery or draw itself.
We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
Hat
(video games) A hat switch.
Hat
The háček symbol.
Hat
The caret symbol ^.
Hat
(internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
Hat
A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
Hat
(transitive) To place a hat on.
Hat
(transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
Hat
(intransitive) To shop for hats.
Hat
Hot.
Hat
A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.
Hat
Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
Hat
An informal term for a person's role;
He took off his politician's hat and talked frankly
Hat
Put on or wear a hat;
He was unsuitably hatted
Hat
Furnish with a hat
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