head in English dictionary

  • head

    Meanings and definitions of "head"

    • Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
    • Foremost in rank or importance.
    • Placed at the top or the front.
    • Coming from in front.
    • (transitive) To be in command of. - see also head up
    • (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
    • (intransitive) To move in a specified direction. heading towards something
    • (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
    • (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
    • (uncountable) Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
    • (countable) Mind; one's own thoughts.
    • (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
    • 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.
    • The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
    • The front, as of a queue.
    • Headway; progress.
    • The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
    • (countable) Leader; chief; mastermind.
    • A headmaster or headmistress.
    • A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
    • A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
    • (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
    • An individual person.
    • (uncountable, measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
    • The population of game.
    • Topic; subject.
    • (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.
    • (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
    • (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
    • (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
    • (uncountable) denouement; crisis
    • A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
    • (music) The headstock of a guitar.
    • (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
    • (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
    • (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
    • A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
    • (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.
    • (fluid dynamics) More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
    • (nautical) The top edge of a sail.
    • (nautical) The bow of a nautical vessel.
    • (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
    • (uncountable, slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
    • (slang) The glans penis.
    • (countable, slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
    • (UK) A headland.
    • adjective
      Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
    • adjective
      Foremost in rank or importance.
    • adjective
      Placed at the top or the front.
    • adjective
      Coming from in front.
    • noun
      (countable)
      The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
    • noun
      (countable)
      The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
    • noun
      (social, countable)
      A leader or expert.
    • noun
      A significant or important part.
    • noun
      Headway; progress.
    • noun
      Topic; subject.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      Denouement; crisis.
    • noun
      (fluid dynamics)
      Pressure and energy.
    • noun
      (slang, uncountable)
      Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
    • noun
      (slang)
      The glans penis.
    • noun
      (slang, countable)
      A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Power; armed force.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To be in command of. (See also head up.)
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To move in a specified direction.
    • verb
      (fishing)
      To remove the head from a fish.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To form a head.
    • verb
      To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
    • verb
      To cut off the top of; to lop off.
    • verb
      (obsolete)
      To behead; to decapitate.
    • verb
      To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
    • verb
      To set on the head.
    • The foremost or leading position in a race, a competition.
    • A person who leads, rules, or is in charge.
    • The person who is in charge of and runs a school.
    • In relation to software or documents, the top or beginning of something.
    • of, relating to, or intended for the head
    • foremost in rank or importance
    • placed at the top or the front
    • coming from in front
    • (transitive) be in command of
    • (transitive) to strike with the head
    • (intransitive) move in a specified direction
    • part of the body
    • mental aptitude or skill
    • mental or emotional control
    • topmost or leading part
    • leader or chief
    • headmaster, headmistress
    • toilet of a ship
    • foam on carbonated beverages
    • the blunt end of a nail, etc.
    • capitulum
    • linguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound
    • head (of cattle)
    • head (of organization, organisation)
    • head (of a line)
    • head (e.g. of a crime syndicate)
    • end of hammer, etc.
    • ear (of plant)
    • a head (of water)
    • head (of a household)
    • chief (of police)
    • The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
    • Leader of a department or tribe.
    • The complex of cognitive faculties, mostly characteristic of human beings, that enables consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, and judgement.
    • noun
      an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head"
    • noun
      a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"
    • noun
      a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
    • noun
      a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
    • noun
      a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
    • noun
      a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
    • noun
      a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation"
    • noun
      a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail"; "a pinhead is the head of a pin"
    • noun
      a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet"
    • noun
      a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle"
    • noun
      a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads"
    • noun
      a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"
    • noun
      (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
    • noun
      forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"
    • noun
      (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
    • noun
      (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
    • noun
      oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head"
    • noun
      that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
    • noun
      that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
    • noun
      the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
    • noun
      the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a large head of foam"
    • noun
      the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack"
    • noun
      the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head"
    • noun
      the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column"
    • noun
      the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam"
    • noun
      the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus"
    • noun
      the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
    • noun
      the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer"
    • noun
      the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"
    • noun
      the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
    • noun
      the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list"
    • noun
      the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window"
    • noun
      (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!"
    • verb
      be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?"
    • verb
      be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president"
    • verb
      be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class"
    • verb
      direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
    • verb
      form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year"
    • verb
      remove the head of; "head the fish"
    • verb
      take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"
    • verb
      to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains"
    • verb
      travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John"

    Synonyms of "head" in English dictionary

    form, anatomical structure, substance abuser are the top synonyms of "head" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "head" in English dictionary

    tail, foot, rear are the top antonyms of "head" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of head

    • head ( third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)
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    • head ( not comparable)
    • head (not comparable)
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    • head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)
  • Head

    Meanings and definitions of "head"

    • A surname, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
    • proper
      A surname, 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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