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.
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