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Word: head (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Coming from in front.
  • Foremost in rank or importance.
  • Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  • Placed at the top or the front.

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Noun:

  • A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
  • A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
  • A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
  • A headmaster or headmistress.
  • A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
  • anatomy The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
  • An individual person.
  • automotive The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
  • billiards The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
  • British a headland.
  • geology Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
  • countable Leader; chief; mastermind.
  • countable Mind; one's own thoughts.
  • slang A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  • countable The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
  • countable The principal operative part of a machine.
  • countable The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  • engineering The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
  • fluid dynamics More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
  • fluid dynamics The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
  • Headway; progress.
  • jazz The principal melody or theme of a piece.
  • lacrosse The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
  • 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.
  • medicine The end of an abscess where pus collects.
  • music A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
  • music The headstock of a guitar.
  • nautical The bow of a nautical vessel.
  • nautical The toilet of a ship.
  • nautical The top edge of a sail.
  • rfc-sense The front, as of a queue.
  • slang The glans penis.
  • The end of a hammer, axe, 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 end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
  • The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
  • the population of game
  • The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
  • The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
  • Topic; subject.
  • uncountable denouement; crisis
  • uncountable Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
  • slang Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex
  • measure word for livestock and game A single animal.

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Proper noun:

  • from=Middle English|dot=, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

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Verb:

  • fishing To remove the head from a fish.
  • intransitive To move in a specified direction. ''heading towards something''
  • transitive To be in command of. - see also head up
  • transitive To strike with the head; as in soccer, ''to head the ball''

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