Meaning of head | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
   countable
2. 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.
3. To do with heads.
   countable, uncountable
4. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
   countable, uncountable
5. mind
6. To block the progress or completion of; intercept: Try to head him off before he gets home. The town headed off the attempt to build another mall.
7. Mind; one's own thoughts.
   countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable
8. guy, dude, man
9. To be overly self-confident or conceited.
10. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
    countable, uncountable
11. Far superior to: head and shoulders above her colleagues in analytical capability.
12. A headdress; a covering for the head.
    countable, uncountable
13. To remain calm; remain in control of oneself.
14. An individual person.
    countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable
15. To lose one's poise or self-control.
16. A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
    countable, uncountable
17. Crazy; deranged.
18. The population of game.
    countable, uncountable
19. As one's responsibility or fault: If this project fails, it's on your head.
20. The antlers of a deer.
    countable, uncountable
21. To consult and plan together: Let's put our heads together and solve this problem.
22. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
    countable
23. a noun suffix of state or condition (godhead; maidenhead), occurring in words now mostly archaic or obsolete, many being superseded by forms in -hood.
    godhead; maidenhead
24. The end of a table.
    countable, uncountable
25. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
    countable, uncountable
26. Bessie, 1937–86, South African novelist.
27. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
    countable, uncountable
28. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener.
    countable, uncountable
29. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
    countable, uncountable
30. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
    countable, uncountable
31. The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
    countable, uncountable
32. Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
    countable, uncountable
33. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
    countable, uncountable
34. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
    countable, uncountable
35. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
    countable, uncountable
36. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
    countable, uncountable
37. The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
    countable, uncountable
38. The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
    countable, uncountable
39. A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
    countable, uncountable
40. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
    countable, uncountable
41. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
    countable, uncountable
42. The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
    countable, uncountable
43. The uppermost part of a valley.
    countable, uncountable
44. Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
    British, countable, uncountable
45. Ellipsis of headline.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
46. The end of an abscess where pus collects.
    countable, uncountable
47. The headstock of a guitar.
    countable, uncountable
48. A leading component.
    countable, uncountable
49. The top edge of a sail.
    countable, uncountable
50. The bow of a vessel.
    countable, uncountable
51. A headland.
    British, countable, uncountable
52. A title or heading in a book or other document.
    countable, uncountable
53. A leader or expert.
    countable, metonymically
54. The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
    countable, metonymically, uncountable
55. A headteacher.
    Ireland, UK, countable, metonymically, uncountable
56. A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
    countable, figuratively, metonymically, slang, uncountable
57. A significant or important part.
    countable, uncountable
58. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
    countable, uncountable
59. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
    countable, uncountable
60. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
    countable, uncountable
61. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
    countable, uncountable
62. The leafy top part of a tree.
    countable, uncountable
63. The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
    countable, uncountable
64. The toilet of a ship.
    countable, uncountable
65. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
66. A component.
    countable, uncountable
67. The principal melody or theme of a piece.
    countable, uncountable
68. 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.
    countable, uncountable
69. The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
    countable, uncountable
70. Headway; progress.
    countable, uncountable
71. Topic; subject.
    countable, uncountable
72. Denouement; crisis.
    countable, singular, uncountable
73. Pressure and energy.
    countable, uncountable
74. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
    countable, uncountable
75. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
    countable, uncountable
76. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
    countable, uncountable
77. Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
    slang, uncountable, vulgar
78. The glans penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable
79. A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
    countable, slang
80. Power; armed force.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.”

“Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.”

“The company is looking for people with good heads for business.”

“He has no head for heights.”

“It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.”

“And each of a succession of teachers who tried to show me that mathematical answers were derived logically and not through some form of esoteric inspiration was forced to give up with the assurance that I had no head for figures. My father 'would read my school reports with a gloom which in other respects they scarcely warranted. His mind worked, I think, this way: no head for figures = no idea of finance = no money.”

“This song keeps going through my head.”

““Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.””

“He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.”

“"Now you have done it, Spuds," said Cripps. "You'll have an awful head on you tomorrow."”

“"Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've a head on me this morning."”

“a laced head”

“a head of hair”

“Admission is three dollars a head.”

“[…] but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. […] And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame.”

“200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses”

“We have a heavy head of deer this year.”

“What does it say at the head of the page?”

“Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.”

“During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.”

“Hit the nail on the head!”

“The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.”

“Tap the head of the drum for this roll.”

“The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.”

“Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.”

“He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.”

“The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.”

“In this repositary, the phenomena of nature are ranged under three principal heads.”

“I'd like to speak to the head of the department.”

“Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.”

““I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]””

“We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.”

“At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.”

“I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.”

“Only true heads know this.”

“The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.”

“Give me a head of lettuce.”

“Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.”

“I've got to go to the head.”

“Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house”

“Holonym: phrase”

“Linguists will see that we reject some assumptions quite widely held in twentieth-century generative linguistics. The differences are sharp and explicit enough that they should provide grounds for discussion without causing confusion. For example, we do not believe subordinators (‘complementizers’) or coordinators (‘conjunctions’) are heads, and we treat every day as a noun phrase headed by day rather than a determinative phrase headed by every. […] That does not mean we are legislating a theoretical view: it is always possible to stop and ask whether certain facts about syntax are better explained under one theoretical conception rather than another.”

“We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.”

“We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.”

“These issues are going to come to a head today.”

“Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne, / The time ſhall not be many houres of age, / More then it is, ere foule ſinne, gathering head, / Shall breake into corruption […]”

“The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.”

“Let the engine build up a good head of steam.”

“How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?”

“She gave great head.”

“Danny got head last night.”

“Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.”

“The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."”

“The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.”

“My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:”

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