head
IPA: hˈɛd
noun
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- (people) To do with heads.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- (figurative, metonymically) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (figurative, metonymically) An individual person.
- (animals) To do with heads.
- (plural head, measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
- The population of game.
- The antlers of a deer.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The end of a table.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- (countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (Britain, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- (nautical) A leading component.
- The top edge of a sail.
- The bow of a vessel.
- (Britain) A headland.
- (social, countable, metonymically) A leader or expert.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- (metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.
- (metonymically) A headmaster or headmistress.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- A significant or important part.
- A beginning or end, a protuberance.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- A component.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- Headway; progress.
- Topic; subject.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- (obsolete) Power; armed force.
- A surname from Middle English, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
- (journalism) Short for headline. [(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.]
verb
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- To set on the head.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Foremost in rank or importance.
- Placed at the top or the front.
- Coming from in front.
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Examples of "head" in Sentences
- The hat should rest on the top of the head.
- It has a latticed head placed on top of a long stalk.
- The blends round the top of the head are a giveaway too.
- The head region with the fissure is in the top of the image.
- The boss is the head of the family and the top decision maker.
- It forms the torso, head, and arms of the High Octane Megazord.
- The High Bailiff is the head stipendiary magistrate in the Isle of Man.
- The figures are bestial, horribly misshapen with heads and faces of idiots.
- The face and head are idealized, recalling the style of classical antiquity.
- It is surrounded by the high mountains which encircle the head of the valley.
- And, if I say, The boy's hat is _on_ his head, you perceive that _on_ shows the relation between _hat_ and _head_.
- Here is the head of another Fashionable Foreigner [_shews the head_], a very simple machine; for he goes upon one spring, self-interest.
- And dreamed of nights when you should sleep with your head upon my breast -- [_Yaouma bends her head_] And now you seek a grave in the slime of the river.
- This was in fashion two or three years past; this is the fashion of last year [_takes a head up_]; and this the morning headdress [_takes the head_] of this present
- Beltain eventually stuck his head in my glass and started to drink my milk, so that was the end of that one. ** shakes head** After AMC, I snazzed up and headed to the Metro.
- This head, obtained by subtracting friction and other losses from the surveyed head, is called the _effective head_, and determines the amount of power delivered at the nozzle.
- {77} Here is the head of a Frenchman [_shews the head_], all levity and lightness, singing and capering from morning till night, as if he looked upon life to be but a long dance, and liberty and law but a jig.
- I say get quiet for a moment, get out of your head not that you're super in your head but for a *decision* like this, I often don't listen to my *head* and listen to what your gut says about what kind of environment would be the best for Wonderbaby.
- We now got ready to go off, putting the boats head out; English Ben and I, who were the largest, standing on each side of the bows, to keep her head on to the sea, two more shipping and manning the two after oars, and the captain taking the steering oar.
- Besides all that we once committed ourselves by writing on the subject, we have done many other cruel things; such as dividing insects, (whether at the union of the head with corselet, or of the corselet with the abdomen,) and we have found that the segments to which the members were articulated carried on their functions _without the head_.