"inverted hat" meaning in English

See inverted hat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: inverted hats [plural]
Etymology: From its shape, supposed to resemble the profile of a hat turned upside-down. Head templates: {{en-noun}} inverted hat (plural inverted hats)
  1. (nonstandard) A háček. Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-inverted_hat-en-noun-tWIvn4P5
  2. (nonstandard) = breve Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-inverted_hat-en-noun-539X6O67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 94

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From its shape, supposed to resemble the profile of a hat turned upside-down.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inverted hats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inverted hat (plural inverted hats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Paul Kiparsky, Explanation in Phonology, page 124:",
          "text": "In Russian the dentals t, d, s and the velars k, g, x become palatalized to č, ž, š […]. (The inverted hat (haček) represents palatalization.)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 April 30th, Ron Meisenheimer, comp.soft-sys.sas, “ASCII chars and SAS titles”, message 1",
          "text": "I’m using PC SAS and would like to get the symbol for infinity in the title of my output. […] When I [hold down the Alt key and enter 236] with SAS, it shows up correctly onscreen; but when it’s printed out, I get an ‘s’ with an inverted hat over it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73",
          "text": "The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A háček."
      ],
      "id": "en-inverted_hat-en-noun-tWIvn4P5",
      "links": [
        [
          "háček",
          "háček#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) A háček."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 October 1st, Ian James Abbott, uk.media.animation.anime, “EVA”, message 26",
          "text": "evangeʹlical (-nj-) […] The…‘a’ has an inverted hat again; the ‘e’ and ‘i’ in ‘geli’ have inverted hats, making them short."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73",
          "text": "The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 8th, Robert Bonomi, mailing.freebsd.questions, “‘Unprintable’ 8-bit characters”, message 13",
          "text": "Now, one (obviously) has to have the basic ‘Roman’ alphabet. [¶] Then there are all the diacritical markings (accent, accent grave, dot umlaut, ring, bar, ‘hat’, inverted hat, etc.) for vowels."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "= breve"
      ],
      "id": "en-inverted_hat-en-noun-539X6O67",
      "links": [
        [
          "breve",
          "breve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) = breve"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inverted hat"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From its shape, supposed to resemble the profile of a hat turned upside-down.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inverted hats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inverted hat (plural inverted hats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Paul Kiparsky, Explanation in Phonology, page 124:",
          "text": "In Russian the dentals t, d, s and the velars k, g, x become palatalized to č, ž, š […]. (The inverted hat (haček) represents palatalization.)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 April 30th, Ron Meisenheimer, comp.soft-sys.sas, “ASCII chars and SAS titles”, message 1",
          "text": "I’m using PC SAS and would like to get the symbol for infinity in the title of my output. […] When I [hold down the Alt key and enter 236] with SAS, it shows up correctly onscreen; but when it’s printed out, I get an ‘s’ with an inverted hat over it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73",
          "text": "The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A háček."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "háček",
          "háček#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) A háček."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 October 1st, Ian James Abbott, uk.media.animation.anime, “EVA”, message 26",
          "text": "evangeʹlical (-nj-) […] The…‘a’ has an inverted hat again; the ‘e’ and ‘i’ in ‘geli’ have inverted hats, making them short."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 November 5th, Richard Proctor, perl.perl6.language, “Re: Unicode operators [Was: Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos]”, message 73",
          "text": "The Gullimots [under latin-1] become T and t with inverted hats under Latin-2, oe and G with an inverted hat under Latin-3."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 8th, Robert Bonomi, mailing.freebsd.questions, “‘Unprintable’ 8-bit characters”, message 13",
          "text": "Now, one (obviously) has to have the basic ‘Roman’ alphabet. [¶] Then there are all the diacritical markings (accent, accent grave, dot umlaut, ring, bar, ‘hat’, inverted hat, etc.) for vowels."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "= breve"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "breve",
          "breve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) = breve"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inverted hat"
}

Download raw JSONL data for inverted hat meaning in English (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.