(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.
Headdress
Definition:
(n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
(n.) A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glastonbury has agreed to restrict the sale of Native American-style headdresses at their 2015 event.
(2) Saira, one of his several targets, is petite, though the wedge sandals and feather headdress may mislead at first.
(3) The Glastonbury website has since listed “Indian headdresses”, alongside cigarettes, candle flares and flags as items not to be sold in its traders section “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management”.
(4) She had a strong physical presence - reinforced by a variety of African headdresses and garments - a booming voice and laughed a lot.
(5) His recent discoveries include The Fabulus Of Unicorns , a troop of apparently polyamorous performers in horned headdresses, who are also one of the acts appearing at Guilty Pleasures’ newest venture, The Mighty Hoop-La , a festivalesque weekender that’s bringing some dazzle and dancing to Bognor Regis at the end of February.
(6) I think we all feel a huge sense of responsibility to do the right thing by him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bird’s nest headdress with Swarovski gemstones.
(7) If somebody came to me today – provided they weren’t wearing Arab headdress – and said the approach was on behalf of News Corp and … they wanted an ethical lawyer to come in and check they weren’t doing anything wrong, and there was a £5m sign-up fee, I’d probably do due diligence.” In July, Mahmood was suspended by the News of the World’s replacement title, the Sun on Sunday, owned by News UK, following the collapse of a trial involving the singer and former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos .
(8) All three men are wearing traditional ghoutra headdresses and flowing robes.
(9) The clothes – a wedding headdress like an amphibian mating display, scarlet armour striated with sinews – were certainly more dramatic than the actors, and won Ishioka an Oscar.
(10) Dressed in a white dress trimmed with gold and a sparkling gold headdress, she sang her intro numbers with her knees bent and her head thrown back, undulating her crotch in a circular motion at the audience.
(11) But on Wednesday Ipso ruled that in the context of the attack, MacKenzie had a right to question Manji’s headdress under free speech.
(12) Stone is painted black in four of the pictures; in all she is styled to look suitably "ethnic", with accessories including a silk fringed headscarf and a black feathered headdress, just in case the message of black skin equals exotic otherness was too subtle.
(13) The headdress, rather than the dress covering the body, is special to the sufis; it is a long hat made to resemble the male generative organ.
(14) This article was amended on 15 October to correct the fact that headdresses may not be sold “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management” rather than banning the headdress from sale altogether.
(15) That melodramatic, all-over-the-shop approach to vocal melody just screamed “hippy” at me, and seemed to be the aural equivalent of shawls, beads, headdresses and candles, all of which I suspected Kate Bush was wearing or surrounded by while she recorded the vocal.
(16) Although it is only one UK festival, I hope that if we spread the news of Glastonbury’s decision online, positive discussions about the stereotyping of Native Americans and the headdress will grow in the UK and elsewhere.” Despite this concession, the festival has not followed all of the suggestions in Round’s petition: he also called on organisers to make “an official statement about the issue”, broaching a conversation that could “foster understanding and facilitate positive shifts in attitudes”.
(17) "We asked for a shabono , [a traditional gathering place for Venezuela's indigenous Yanomami] and we got a football stadium that not only looks like a shabono but has a rooftop that is inspired by the traditional penacho [headdress]," said Rodríguez of the 55,000-seat venue with sliding yellow, blue and red panels.
(18) One by one, the tribal leaders of the Brazilian Xingu took to their feet, wearing yellow and red feather headdresses and clutching thick wooden clubs and spears.
(19) When she reappears, she wears the traditional headdress which symbolises that a girl is now recognised as a woman.
(20) • Morning Gloryville is monthly at Oval Space, London, 24 February (tickets from £16) , morninggloryville.com Savage Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Yiannis Mouzakitis Not so long ago you could go to any number of nights in London and come across remarkably dressed club creatures in face paint, DIY headdresses, Spandex jumpsuits, household items – anything as long as it was somehow fabulous and Leigh Bowery would have approved.