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[ noun ] (zoology) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
Synonyms Examples "he stuck his head out the window" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)And still another witness , one who had crawled out from under a heap of corpses , had_to tell how the victims had been forced to lay themselves head to foot one on top of the other before being shot . But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann 's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned , the press seems to have missed it . (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Instead of quelling the dissension , as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir_Francis_Drake lopped a man 's head off under similar circumstances ) , Hudson decided to be reasonable . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads . His head cannot contain enough sense to command a regiment , much less a corps . Related terms external_body_part human_head body animal face ear brain skull muzzle temple basilar_artery |
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[ verb ] to go or travel towards
Examples : "where is she heading" "We were headed for the mountains" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)The Georgia_Legislature will wind_up its 1961 session Monday and head for home - where some of the highway bond money it approved will follow shortly . (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)`` Take a ride on this one '' , Brooks_Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third_sacker grabbed a bat , headed for the plate and bounced a third inning two run double off the left centerfield wall tonight . (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` Buster would solve that quarterback problem just_as we head that way '' . (The New York Times,...)`` It was a nice round figure , that 12 '' , he said as he headed for the clubhouse , not too_much perturbed . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)After spending two nights ( Wednesday and Thursday ) in Catskill , the deputies again headed for the Vermejo to finish their business . |
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[ noun ] (zoology) a single domestic animal
Examples : "200 head of cattle" Used in print (Successful Farming, 59:12...)To increase rate of gain and improve feed efficiency , feed 75 milligrams per head in daily supplement . To reduce incidence of liver abscesses , supply 75 milligrams of oxytetracycline activity per head daily . For the prevention or treatment of the early stages of shipping_fever complex , increase feeding level to 0.5 to 2 grams per head per day . Not less than 70 milligrams of Aureomycin per head daily to aid in the prevention of liver abscesses in feed-lot beef_cattle . Feed at level of 70 milligrams per head per day . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be in charge of
Synonyms Examples "Who is heading this project?" Used in print (The New York Times,...)Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players , coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football . Named by Mayor_Wagner three years ago to head a committee that included James_A._Farley , Bernard_Gimbel and Clint_Blume , Shea worked relentlessly . The New_York franchise is headed by Mrs._Charles_Shipman_Payson . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)The Deacon_Board , headed by a black_man named Carlson , had practically taken_over as the pastor grew old , and had_its_way with the support of the Amen_corner . |
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[ noun ] that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
Examples "his mind wandered" "I couldn't get his words out of my head" Used in print (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at_all , that they asserted nothing true or false , but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '' , then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at_rest . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob , on the same principle which had led Miss_Harris to demand water . As_usual , Mrs._Lincoln had lost her head , but nobody blamed her for doing so now . Related terms cognition tabula_rasa unconscious_mind subconscious_mind ego noddle mind |
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[ noun ] a person who is in charge
Examples "the head of the whole operation" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus_Christ because Jesus_Christ has identified himself with human history and human_death , coming as the head of a new humanity . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash , and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman : `` Excuse me , but when we came_out we found that we had left my daughter 's handbag and my wife 's behind '' . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)This is the force , in our time and in every other time , that urges the paranoiac and the manic-depressive to become head of a state . |
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[ verb ] travel in front of; go in advance of others
Synonyms Examples : "The procession was headed by John" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans],...)Division three will be headed by the Marines followed by 12 states ; division four will be headed by the Navy , followed by 11 states ; division five , by the Air_Force followed by 11 states . Division three will be headed by the Marines followed by 12 states ; division four will be headed by the Navy , followed by 11 states ; division five , by the Air_Force followed by 11 states . Division six will be headed by the Coast_Guard , followed by the reserve forces of all services , five states , Puerto_Rico , the_Virgin Islands , Guam , American_Samoa , the trust_territories and the Canal_Zone . |
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[ noun ] (physics) the pressure exerted by a fluid
Examples "a head of steam" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)It is presumed that this negative head was associated with some geometric factor of the assembly , since different readings were obtained with the same fluid and the only apparent difference was the assembly and disassembly of the apparatus . This negative pressure is not explained by the velocity head * * f since this is not sufficient to explain the readings by several magnitudes . The actual change * * f caused by a shear field is calculated by multiplying the pressure differential times the volume , just_as_it_is for any gravitational or osmotic_pressure head . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
Synonyms Examples "This student heads the class" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution,...)That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is_due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners , headed by Chairman_Charles_O._Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed , and other county officials . (Richard B. Morris, "Seven Who Set Our Destiny"...)Author of the Albany_Plan of Union , which , had it been adopted , might have avoided the Revolution , he fought the colonists ' front-line battles in London , negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war , headed the state_government of Pennsylvania , and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal_Convention . |
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[ adjective ] (of persons) highest in rank or authority or office
Examples "his arch rival" "the boss man" "the chief executive" "head librarian" "top administrators" Used in print (The New York Times,...)Nick_Skorich , the line_coach for the football champion Philadelphia_Eagles , was elevated today to head coach . Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm_Van_Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching_job with the Minnesota_Vikings , the newest National_Football_League entry . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (transportation) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)On the third voyage , a near mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew_members on the Half_Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in mid Atlantic . (Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)Finally , as time began to run_out , he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies . |
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[ noun ] the source of water from which a stream arises
Synonyms Examples "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived_at the mouth of the St._Peter's_River , the head of navigation on the Mississippi , and began construction of Fort_St._Anthony which , upon completion , was renamed in_honor_of its commander , Colonel_Josiah_Snelling . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (grammar) of a word in a phrase; the word playing the same grammatical role in the sentence that the phrase itself plays
Examples "the head noun in the phrase `fresh fish' is `fish,' which is the direct object in the sentence `I bought fresh fish'" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (linguistics) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
Synonyms Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)In there are n't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people : the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious . |
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[ noun ] (zoology) the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
Examples "the head of the humerus" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
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[ noun ] (zoology) that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
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[ verb ] form a head or come or grow to a head
Examples "The wheat headed early this year" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 962
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[ noun ] the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
Examples "the beer had a large head of foam" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a toilet on board a boat or ship
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[ noun ] (linguistics,writing) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
Examples "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" Related terms line title headline running_head rubric subheading lemma crossheading |
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[ noun ] (work,education) the educator who has executive authority for a school
Synonyms Examples "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the subject matter at issue
Synonyms Examples "the question of disease merits serious discussion" "under the head of minor Roman poets" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the striking part of a tool
Examples "the head of the hammer" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) a dense clusters of flowers or foliage
Synonyms Examples : "a head of cauliflower" "a head of lettuce" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
Examples "he is two heads taller than his little sister" "his horse won by a head" Related terms |
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[ verb ] take its rise
Examples "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sexuality) oral-genital stimulation
Synonyms Examples "they say he gives good head" Related terms |
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