What's the difference between hat and turban?

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.

Turban


Definition:

  • (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
  • (n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.
  • (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A turban dressing is used on the scrotum for 24 hours, and the patient is discharged with oral pain medication.
  • (2) Batmanghelidjh arrived in a black cab, dressed in her signature bright clothing and elaborate turban, to offer words of thanks and support to the crowd.
  • (3) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
  • (4) In March this year in the US, a letter was sent to a Sikh family – addressed to the "Turban Family" – claiming to know they had links to the Taliban.
  • (5) 3.46pm: This appears to show photographic proof that Karoubi was indeed roughed-up and that his turban was knocked off.
  • (6) One drawing depicted the Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, while in another he wielded a sword.
  • (7) Otherwise his appearance – in a white tunic and turban - was quite neat, in stark contrast to the saggy white undershirt he wore in photographs taken after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003.
  • (8) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
  • (9) After the ruling was announced, men in suits, straw hats or turbans, many brandishing traditional fly-whisks, and women in headscarves and colourful dresses danced around the garden behind the headquarters of the KHRC.
  • (10) Likewise, a fifth thought that an employer should be able to insist a Sikh man take off his turban at work, and 15% believed that a Christian woman should take off her crucifix.
  • (11) With her bright turbans and dazzling charisma, Batmanghelidjh is a colossally successful networker and fundraiser.
  • (12) Two men, both bearded and wearing the trademark thick-coiled black turban, were sitting in the shade behind a friend's workshop.
  • (13) We present an unusual case of massive dermal cylindroma (turban tumor), occupying the entire scalpand forehead.
  • (14) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
  • (15) Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi, in black turban, with Ayatollah Jannati Raeisi, who holds the clerical rank of hojjatoleslam, is a different character.
  • (16) I immediately went out to see and when I opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at me and told me go back inside."
  • (17) The sight of black--turbaned men holding forth on plans for the Islamic Emirate brought memories of the 1990s flooding back for many.
  • (18) That scuttled the process, but dramatic pictures of men in black turbans giving a press conference like members of a government-in-exile were already bouncing around the internet.
  • (19) She would write to him that she once spotted him at the ballet without knowing his identity - “you had a turban on and I think I thought you had been born in it”.
  • (20) As a student I was the first American Sikh to play for the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a turban.

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