What's the difference between hat and haw?

Hat


Definition:

  • (a.) Hot.
  • () sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
  • (6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (7) "On 22 May," reads the legend above their black fedora hats, "Jens and Sedsel will choose who's in charge in Europe .
  • (8) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (9) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (10) In the present study, the clinical value of handgrip-apexcardiographic test (HAT) for identifying patients with new ischemia by the assessment of LV diastolic abnormalities during HG was prospectively investigated.
  • (11) Now, you have to put on a producer's hat, a director's hat, a writer's hat.
  • (12) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
  • (13) Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Zaïre is a medical problem of first importance, particularly in endemic areas where sleeping sickness threatens about 10 millions of human beings almost the third of the whole population.
  • (14) It is proposed that the acceleration of 3-HAT oxidation leads to the enhancement of the 3-HAT toxicity.
  • (15) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (16) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (17) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (18) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (19) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (20) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.

Haw


Definition:

  • (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
  • (n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.
  • (n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
  • (n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
  • (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
  • (v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
  • (2) Nearby, peace campaigner Maria Galliastegui, a veteran of the camp set up by Brian Haw and others on Parliament Square, stood wearing a white poppy.
  • (3) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
  • (4) On stage 1, the first hill that might split the peloton is Buttertubs Pass, now restyled as Côte de Buttertubs, which rises up out of Hawes in North Yorkshire and swoops down into the gorgeous Swaledale valley.
  • (5) This is not the time to restrict our choices by casting it aside.” Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, is also expected to mount a defence of diesel cars at the National Air Quality Conference in Birmingham later on Thursday, arguing that the latest diesel vehicles are the cleanest ever.
  • (6) Private and fleet buyers are clearly capitalising on attractive deals and new technologies against a backdrop of increasing economic confidence," said Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT.
  • (7) Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers, told the BBC leaving the EU would jeopardise the industry’s continued success.
  • (8) Consumer confidence remains high as buyers continue to capitalise on attractive finance deals, although this could be affected by political and economic uncertainty in the coming months,” said Hawes.
  • (9) The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
  • (10) The SMMT backed the remain camp in the run-up to the EU referendum, and Hawes said members were most concerned about possible tariffs being imposed on parts imported from the EU after Brexit.
  • (11) Hawes said parts could sometimes pass through four countries before reaching the UK.
  • (12) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
  • (13) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the trade body, told the National Air Quality Conference: “Consumers are right to be concerned following the events of the past 10 days.
  • (14) "B rutalist" would be a generous way of describing the Dublin car park where the Guardian first catches sight of Line Of Duty 's new lead, Keeley Hawes.
  • (15) A lot of the myth about Conservatives is that they are a certain type of person in a tweed suit going ‘haw, haw, haw’,” says Kendrick.
  • (16) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said Britain's strengthening economy was driving the market: “This marks 26 consecutive months of growth as GDP continues to pick up, inflation falls and wage levels improve."
  • (17) Mike Hawes, the SMMT's chief executive, said: "The UK automotive industry continued its renaissance in July, with the month marking five million car exports since 2010.
  • (18) Before joining the SMMT in 2013, Hawes was a senior executive at Bentley, and carried out work for its parent company, Volkswagen AG, in corporate affairs roles.
  • (19) He won for State Britain [Wallinger's recreation of peace campaigner Brian Haw's protest camp] – but that wasn't shown.
  • (20) Haw was compared with the synthetic reference compound using GC-MS, IR, TLC, PC, ion-exchange chromatogrpahy and high-voltage electrophoresis.

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