head

Noun

head (countable and uncountable; plural heads)

1. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human, or representation thereof, which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
2. (uncountable) Mental aptitude or talent.

   The company is looking for somebody with a good head for business.

   (uncountable) Mental or emotional control

   He has no head for heights.

3. (countable) The topmost, foremost, leading or principal operative part of anything.

   What does it say on the head of the page?

   1. The end of a hammer, axe, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
   2. The blunt end of a nail, screw, tack, pin or similar fastener.
   3. The source of a river; the end where water flows into a lake
   4. The front of a queue
   5. (nautical) The top of a sail.
   6. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
   7. A drum head.
4. (countable) Leader; chief; mastermind.

   I"d like to speak to the head of the department.

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

5. A headmaster or headmistress.
6. (usually in plural heads"") (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
7. (countable) (slang) Heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs; as a crack head, a dope head.

Synonyms:

• (foremost in rank or importance): chief, principal
• (placed at the top or the front): first, top

Antonyms:

• (coming from in front): [[tail]]

4 letters in word "head": A D E H.

Anagrams of head:

• ahed

• hade

• haed

Words found within head:

ad ae ah da dae dah de ea ed edh eh ha had hae he

• Definitions:
• 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" a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" mind: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam" the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" fountainhead: the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) 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" capitulum: a dense clusters of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" principal: the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head" a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads" promontory: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet" 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" forefront: the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" pass: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" headway: forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale" point: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" question: the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets" heading: 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" to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus" that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" lead: travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" read/write head: (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class" the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" steer: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas" be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president" a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin" drumhead: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year" oral sex: oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head" remove the head of; "head the fish"
• In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth (all of which aid in various sensory functions, such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste). ...
• Head was an English rock band of the late 1980s.
• Head is a motion picture released in 1968, starring TV rock group The Monkees (in credit order: Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was written and produced by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson, and directed by Rafelson. ...
• head is a program on Unix and Unix-like systems used to display the first few lines of a text file or piped data. The command-syntax is: head [options]
• Head is the first full album by Chicago noise rock band The Jesus Lizard. It was released on Touch & Go Records in 1990. It is their first release to feature drummer Mac McNeilly.
• In jazz music, the head is the main melody or theme of a pieceHill 2000, p.40.. It is usually played at the beginning and end of a performance before a series of improvised solos, and sometimes in-between them. ...
• Head is the third track due for official release from The Cooper Temple Clause's third album Make This Your Own. It is technically the fourth single from this album as "Damage" (previously released as an internet download single) is also included on Make This Your Own.
• In botany, a head or flower head is an inflorescence composed of numerous individual flowers (=florets) that share the same basis and grow so closely together that they would appear to be a single flower. A head where the bracts form an involucre under the basis is called a capitulum (pl. ...
• The end caps on a cylindrically shaped Pressure vessel are commonly known as heads.
• HEAD is a sports equipment and clothing company, known for their tennis racquets which are used by many top players such as Ivan Ljubicic, Richard Gasquet, Andre Agassi, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Gaël Monfils, Marat Safin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Sebastien Grosjean, and many more. ...
• The term head has been used by British geologists since the middle of the 19th century. It describes deposits at the very top of the geological succession, that could not be classified more accurately.
• Head is the second episode of the BBC period comedy Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.
• The head (or heads) is a ship's water closet or toilet.
• "Head" is the name of a song which first appeared on Prince's 1980 album Dirty Mind.
• In linguistics, the head is the 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.
• Head is the soundtrack to the band's first and only theatrical release, Head. It was The Monkees' sixth album and their last to feature Peter Tork, until 1987's Pool It!.
• The top part of a message, where administrative information (etc.) is put.
• A measure of pressure, expressed in feet of head for centrifugal pumps. Indicates the height of a column of water being moved by the pump (without friction losses).
• An end closure for the filter case or bowl which contains one or more ports.
• Toilet facilities or room where they are located.
• The prongs that secure a stone onto a setting.
• When referring to disk drives, the number of read/write heads within a disk drive. For each platter in a disk drive, there are normally two heads for each platter -- one for each surface -- although one surface may go unused. See also Geometry.
• A marine toilet. Also the upper corner of a triangular sail.
• the closed end of the cigar, or the end you cut and smoke.
• The "head" aboard a Navy ship is the bathroom. The term comes from the days of sailing ships when the place for the crew to relieve themselves was all the way forward on either side of the bowsprit, the integral part of the hull to which the figurehead was fastened.
• The margin at the top of a page.
• The main horizontal member forming the top of the window or door frame.
• The top edge of a book or magazine.
• The energy of fluid per weight units; dimensionally expressed as length unit, for example, Newton × meters/Newton = meters.
• A group of flowers borne together in a common receptacle.
• The top of a page of text which can be a chapter heading, title line, etc.
• The upper part of the microscope that contains the eyepiece tube and prisms. A monocular head has one eyepiece, a binocular has two (one for each eye), a dual head has two but they are not together, and a trinocular head has three, one which is generally used for a camera connection.
• The <HEAD> section of an HTML document is placed at the top of the page between an opening tag, <HEAD>, and a closing tag, </HEAD>, and contains metadata about the document itself, not the content that will be displayed on the page. It is followed by the <BODY> section.
• Each platter on a hard drive contains a head for each side of the platter. The heads are devices which ride very closely to the surface of the platter and allow information to be read from and written to the platter. ...
• The part of the club that makes contact with the ball. Usually made of wood, iron or some substitute material.
• (1) The front of a vessel. (2) The upper corner or edge of a sail. (3) The top or front of a part. (4) The toilet and toilet room in a vessel.
• The distance that water falls in passing through a hydraulic structure or device such as a hydroelectric plant. ...
• The first (and last) chorus of a tune, in which the song or melody is stated without improvisation or with minimal improvisation.
• A part mounted very close to the surface of a disk platter to read or write data.
• The word head has several meanings in a computer context. One is (1) a magnetic head, which is a high precision electromagnet that is used to read and write data on magnetic media (ie, HDDs, floppy disks and magnetic tape). ...
• A measurement of pressure, usually in feet of water. A 30 foot head is the pressure equivalent to the pressure found at the base of the column of water 30 feet high.

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