header
IPA: hˈɛdɝ
noun
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (programming) Clipping of header file. [(programming) A file, usually in the form of source code, that is automatically included in another source file by the compiler.]
verb
- (sports, transitive) To strike (a ball) with one's head.
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Examples of "header" in Sentences
- The picture in the header is lame.
- The scope is defined in the header.
- The size of the header is identical.
- The header is fail, to put it bluntly.
- I like succinct headers, the shorter the better.
- Credit for the header is at the bottom of the page.
- The headers or fetching dogs keep livestock in a group.
- The header contains the destination and the message type.
- The header of the article says this is about the anarchist society.
- Dodds almost scored in the final, hitting the crossbar with a header.
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