Definition of head in English English dictionary
- A surname, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex
She gave great head.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel
- The principal operative part of a machine
lacrosse The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- To be in command of. - see also head up
Who heads the board of trustees?.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs
- The top edge of a sail
- Placed at the top or the front
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs
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.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor
During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it
The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound
Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
- Foremost in rank or importance
The head cook.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum
Give me a head of lettuce.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked
- Topic; subject
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
- To move in a specified direction. heading towards something
I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects
- A headland
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication
he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the ‘head’ that followed after drink.
- To remove the head from a fish
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
- Coming from in front
head wind.
- The toilet of a ship
I've got to go to the head.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece
- The headstock of a guitar
- Leader; chief; mastermind
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight
- The glans penis
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill
He has no head for heights.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part
What does it say on the head of the page?.
- A single animal
they shot 20 head of quail.
- Mind; one's own thoughts
This song keeps going through my head.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession
- An individual person
Admission is three dollars a head.
- 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
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) The front, as of a queue
Because you got them all right, you can go to the head.
- denouement; crisis
These isses are going to come to a head today.
- The population of game
planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves.
- Headway; progress
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point
- The bow of a nautical vessel
- A headmaster or headmistress
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
- adv. precipitately, as in diving
- 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"
- {n} a chief, the top, what contains the brain
- {v} to lead, govern, lop, top, behead, go in front, have a source or originate
- An English surname
- If you are heading for a particular place, you are going towards that place. In American English, you can also say that you are headed for a particular place. He headed for the bus stop It is not clear how many of them will be heading back to Saudi Arabia tomorrow She and her child boarded a plane headed to where her family lived
- {f} lead, direct; be at the front; go in a certain direction
- You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group. This simple chicken dish costs less than £1 a head
- This is a top level element in every HTML document which encapsulates information and directions in an unordered fashion that are about the HTML document No actual document content is located in the HEAD element
- The head of a school is the teacher who is in charge. = head teacher
- Upper part of the body
- If a problem or disagreement comes to a head or is brought to a head, it becomes so bad that something must be done about it. These problems came to a head in September when five of the station's journalists were sacked
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail
- A drum head
- The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- (also "clubhead") the part of the club that is intended to make contact with the ball Example: The head of the club had mud all over it
- The vertical height of water in a reservoir above the turbine or the difference between the surface of the reservoir and the surface of the river immediately downstream from the turbine and dam Also called hydraulic head
- {s} chief, leading, main, principal
- That part of a Web document, at the beginning, which contains meta-information about the document
- The part of the racket comprising the frame and strings
- Head Start
- In the United States, a government funded preschool program for impoverished children
- head and shoulders
- To a considerable degree; better; outstanding
He was head and shoulders above the others in the law firm..
- head blight
- a blight afflicting the seed heads or inflorescences of cereal crops
- head boy
- A boy of a school sixth form, whose duties may include representing the school and organising the prefects
- head boys
- plural form of head boy
- head butted
- Simple past tense and past participle of head butt
- head butting
- Present participle of head butt
- head butts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of head butt
- head cases
- plural form of head case
- head cheese
- brawn (terrine)
- head cheeses
- plural form of head cheese
- head coach
- The highest ranking coach of a coaching staff
The other coaches offered their opinions, but in the end the head coach decided.
- head cold
- A common cold (illness)
A medical analogy: You have a head cold so you go to the doctor for advice.
- head colds
- plural form of head cold
- head cook and bottle washer
- Alternative form of chief cook and bottle washer
- head cook and bottle washers
- plural form of head cook and bottle washer
- head cook and bottle-washer
- Alternative form of chief cook and bottle washer
- head cook and bottle-washers
- plural form of head cook and bottle-washer
- head cooks and bottle washers
- plural form of head cook and bottle washer
- head cooks and bottle-washers
- plural form of head cook and bottle-washer
- head count
- The exact number of people in a group or organization
- head count
- An act of counting a small group of people
- head counts
- plural form of head count
- head down, bum up
- A figurative bodily position adopted when working hard at some task, either physical or mental. (Head down may well be literal, but bum up is figurative.)
2007: Hadn't heard a thing. Hard at work, head down, bum up. — Gold Coast Bulletin, Call of sea sirens, 6 April 2007.
- head fake
- Any analogously misleading situation, such as a brief rise before a fall on the stock market
- head fake
- A player's movement of the head as if to change direction, hoping to mislead pursuers
- head fakes
- plural form of head fake
- head for the hills
- To go to a safe place; to seek refuge; to flee
Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘only at the start of a steep downturn’ and advised investors to head for the hills.
- head for the hills
- To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation
Modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills.
- head game
- An attempt to psychologically intimidate someone
- head games
- plural form of head game
- head groups
- plural form of head group
- head honcho
- The person in charge; the highest-ranking person in an organization
The head honcho is hard to reach because he's so busy.
- head honchos
- plural form of head honcho
- head lice
- plural form of head louse
- head line
- A line on the palm of the hand from between the thumb and index finger moving across the palm. supposed to indicate, by its form or position, one's mentality
- head linesman
- The chief, senior or most authoritative of a group of linesmen officiating at a match
The head linesman overruled the decision of the a linesman.
- head louse
- A parasitic insect, Pediculus humanus capitis, which lives among the hairs on the head of a human and feeds on blood
- head man
- The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group
- head mans
- plural form of head man
- head men
- plural form of head man
- head of government
- The chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet; usually called Prime Minister (in a parliamentary system) or President (in a presidential system)
- head of hair
- All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)
- head of household
- The person responsible for governing a group that lives together, such as a family
- head of navigation
- The farthest point above the mouth of a river that can be navigated by ships. This term can be somewhat subjective on many streams, as this point may vary greatly with the size of the ship being contemplated for navigation. On others it is quite objective, being caused by a waterfall, dam or lock
- head of state
- The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist
- head off
- To avoid some usually negative consequence
The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.
- head off
- To intercept
The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.
- head off
- To begin moving away
We will head off on our holidays tomorrow.
- head office
- The main administrative centre for a company or organisation
- head over heels
- Hopelessly smitten
He was head over heels in love with the girl next door.
- head over heels
- At top speed; frantically
Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.
- head over heels
- Tumbling upside down
She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.
- head rhyme
- The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables
- head rhymes
- plural form of head rhyme
- head roll
- A juggling maneuver where the object (usually a club) is rolled over the top of the head into the other hand
- head rolls
- plural form of head roll
- head scratcher
- A particularly puzzling or confusing event
A judge will decide what is the most logical, although I'm sure to some judges will seem like science fiction and a wild scheme, McDonald said. Other judges make think this is a good thing. It will be a head scratcher for the judge.''.
- head scratcher
- A device used to scratch the head
Her aunt's husband or her grandfather brings a head scratcher. If the maid scratched her hair or body with her fingers during these days of observance, her hair would fall out..
- head shop
- A retail outlet specializing in sale of paraphernalia related to consumption of cannabis, other recreational drugs, and New Age herbs, as well as generally selling counterculture art, magazines, music, clothing, and home decor
- head shops
- plural form of head shop
- head south
- Alternative form of go south
- head start
- A factor conducive to superiority and success
His father's money gave him a head start in life.
- head start
- An advantage given (or taken), for example, prior to the beginning of a race
I want to set off at dawn to get a head start over the competition.
- head tax
- A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax
- head to toe
- Entirely; completely; over one's full body
He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.
- head to toe
- in reversed positions; in a lying position of two people where each person's feet are juxtaposed to the other person's head
- Yeah, you know, head to toe.
- head to wind
- Having the bow of a boat facing directly into the wind
- head up
- To lead or take the lead; to direct; to take charge
We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
- head voice
- a kind of voice of high pitch and of a thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other
- head-butting
- Alternative spelling of head butting. The act of striking another with one's forehead
- head-butting
- Present participle of head-butt
- head-emptier
- Anything mindless, that doesn't involve thinking
And for all the goofiness and great yawning gaps of plot logic, The Lawnmower Man is a fun bad movie, a diverting head emptier, a movie Twinkie.
- head-in-the-sand
- Exhibiting disregard or denial of a problem or threat
The head-in-the-sand approach to environmentalism seldom improves matters.
- head-of-household
- Attributive form of head of household
head-of-household status.
- head-of-state
- Attributive form of head of state, noun
Arafat had a head-of-state mentality.
- head-on
- Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion
Getting into a head-on collision is dangerous.
- head-on
- Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating
a head-on approach to a problem.
- head-on
- A collision from the front
He was injured in a head-on with a larger vehicle.
- head-on collision
- A collision where the front ends of two vehicles (such as ships, trains, cars, planes, etc.) hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision
- head-on collisions
- plural form of head-on collision
- head-scratcher
- A scratcher for the head
- head-scratcher
- A puzzle
- head-shrinker
- Literally, one who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes
- head-shrinker
- A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink
- head-the-ball
- a stupid person; a nutcase
- head-to-head
- one-to-one, direct
- head-to-head
- one-to-one, directly
- head-up display
- A type of radar or electronic chart display where the top of the display always represents the direction the vessel is heading
- head-up display
- A semi-transparent graphical and textual display of information projected upon the field of view of a pilot of an aircraft. Abbreviation: HUD
- head-on
- in direct opposition; directly; "we must meet the problem head-on"
- head over ears
- (deyim) Deeply immersed
- head start
- An advantage granted or gained at the beginning
- head to head
- A game where only two players may participate
- head to head
- In duplex printing, when the page top is printed in the same position on both sides of the page
- head-to-head
- involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tete supper"; "a head-to-head conversation"
- head-to-head
- inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition; "as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck"; "the election was a nip and tuck affair"
- head-to-head
- A head-to-head contest or competition is one in which two people or groups compete directly against each other. He won a head-to-head battle with NF leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Head-to-head is also an adverb. Canadian business cannot compete head-to-head with American business
- head-to-head
- A head-to-head is a head-to-head contest or competition. a head-to-head between the champion and the aspiring champion. competing directly with another person or group
- head-to-head
- involving two parties competing with each other
- head-to-head
- even or close in a race or competition or comparison; "the horses ran neck and neck"; "he won nip and tuck"
- headed
- Having a head or heading
- headed
- Simple past tense and past participle of head
Smith headed the team last summer.
- headed
- Having a head with specified characteristics
- heading
- Present participle of head
- heading
- The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- headless
- Without a head in the sense of leadership
The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
- headless
- Not having a head morpheme or word
- headless
- Running without a user interface; specifically, running without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse
This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server.
- headless
- Without a head of foam
- headless
- Without a head; decapitated
How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?.
- heads
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of head
- heads
- abbreviation for headphones
Pass me the heads, I wanna listen.
- heads
- plural form of head
- heads
- A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads
- heading
- {n} timber for the heads of casks
- headless
- {a} void of a head or chief, obstinate, rash
- head up
- (Sailing) Steer towards the wind
- Head Quarter
- hq
- Headless
- acephalous
- The head
- noggin
- The head
- cop
- The head
- melon
- The head
- cephalon
- The head
- nole
- The head
- nob
- The head
- heved
- The head
- nut
- head for
- move in the direction of, travel in the direction of, go toward
- head off
- prevent; deflect, turn aside
- head off
- If you head off a person, animal, or vehicle, you move to a place in front of them in order to capture them or make them change the direction they are moving in. He changed direction swiftly, turned into the hallway and headed her off
- head off
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
- head off
- If you head something off, especially something unpleasant, you take action before it is expected to happen in order to prevent it from happening. He would ask Congress to intervene and head off a strike You have to be good at spotting trouble on the way and heading it off
- head office
- (See: home office )
- head office
- = See Home Office The term "head office" is primarily used in British insurance operations, whereas "home office" is used for American operations
- head office
- administration, main office
- head office
- Revelstoke Ph: 250-837-9579 Fax: 250-837-6595 Email
- head office
- the main office of a company
- head over heels
- in disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter
- head over heels
- {i} rolling upside down, tumbling
- head over heels
- in chaotic haste; frantically
- head over heels
- {s} entirely, completely, fully; excited
- head over heels
- in disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter"
- head start
- advantage gained or given early
- head start
- Federally funded pre-elementary school program to provide learning opportunities for disadvantaged students
- head start
- These are free programs for children three to five years old from low-income families It is not necessary for parents to be employed or in training programs Most programs are half day Health care and parent training are also available
- head start
- Federally funded compensatory education program for disadvantaged pre-schoolers Designed to compensate for developmental and educational lags caused by social deprivation Largely part-day and largely for 3 and 4 year olds Early Head Start is a similar program targeted at the under 3s
- head start
- advantage gained by an early start as in a race; "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"
- head start
- Federally mandated and financed preschool programs for low-income 3-5 year-olds The federal law requires that 10% of Head Start enrollment be made available to children with disabilities
- head start
- A U S government program that helps prepare preschool children for the experience of school
