Определение -head в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Used to form words to describe people who are fans of something, especially music
- Used to form (usually derogatory) words for people who regularly use a specified drug or other substance, such as alcohol, or who are addicted in some way
- Suffix used to create nouns indicating a state, similar to the suffix and -hood
- Bird's Head
- A large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the Province of West Papua, Indonesia
- East Bird's Head
- A language family whose members are spoken on the Bird's Head peninsula in West Papua
- Head
- A surname, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head
- Head Start
- In the United States, a government funded preschool program for impoverished children
- King Charles' head
- An obsession, especially one that keeps intruding irrelevantly into other matters
It is characteristic of Cobbett that he could always be relied on to produce conjuror-like from any subject one of his many King Charles' heads.
- King Charles's head
- Alternative spelling of King Charles' head
- Lion's Head
- a mountain located in Cape Town, South Africa, between Table Mountain and Signal Hill
- Phillips head
- A screwdriver with a '+' shaped head for turning screws so socketed
- Phillips head
- A screw turned by such a screwdriver
- Torx head
- A type of screw head characterized by a 6-point star-shaped pattern
- angels dancing on the head of a pin
- Arcane intellectual speculation
The issues Dr. Wolfensberger wrestles with and writes about are not intellectual discussions of angels dancing on the head of a pin.
- angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin
- Adjectival or attributive form of angels dancing on the head of a pin
Finally, there was an angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin argument about whether Dr Kelly worked “in” the MoD or “for” the MoD.
- axe head
- The metal, cutting, portion of an axe
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- to waste effort on a futile project
- bed head
- The disheveled appearance of a person's hair after he has risen from sleeping
- bite someone's head off
- To severely berate someone
- bubble-head
- A submariner
- bury one's head in the sand
- To deliberately ignore the reality of a situation
- come to a head
- To suddenly reveal that which has lain latent for a time
His festering anger came to a head after the incident.
- come to a head
- To rapidly come to a turning point
The escalating crisis between England and her American colonies came to a head when fighting broke out in 1775.
- come to a head
- To suddenly make mature or perfected that which was inchoate or imperfectly formed
- crack head
- Alternative spelling of crackhead
- cylinder head
- A part of an internal combustion engine, usually made as a removable piece, that closes one end of the engine's cylinders
- death's head
- Alternative spelling of death's-head
- death's-head
- A human skull, as symbol of death
- death's-head hawkmoth
- A moth of any of the three species Acherontia atropos, A. styx or A. lachesis; notable for the skull-like pattern on its back
- do someone's head in
- To frustrate, irritate or disturb someone
Please stop reading the name of every sign we came across, it's doing my head in!.
- drum head
- The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic
- femur head
- The highest, globular part of the femur
- fixed head coupé
- a four-seated car or coupé with the appearance of a sports car, with a sloping rear and hardtop
- fixed head coupés
- plural form of fixed head coupé
- flower head
- A compact cluster of florets having the appearance of a single flower (as in the daisy family)
- fucked in the head
- not quite right mentally: stupid, perverted, or mentally ill
- gave head
- Simple past of give head
- get one's head around
- to work out, figure out (a problem)
- get one's head around
- to understand, fathom (a problem)
When my mum did pass away I fell out with Cod because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us.
- gilt-head bream
- Type of fish
- gilt-head breams
- plural form of gilt-head bream
- give head
- To perform oral sex on another person
- give someone a big head
- To flatter someone excessively; to overpraise someone, usually resulting in them becoming proud, arrogant or conceited
Please stop telling me how smart I am - you'll give me a big head!.
- give someone his head
- To allow (someone) to act without constraint: to give (someone) free rein
- given head
- Past participle of give head
- given her head
- Past participle of give her head, indicating a perfect tense
He had given her head many times, but this time she especially enjoyed it.
- given her head
- Past participle of give her her head, indicating a passive voice
The manager was given her head to make whatever changes she might deem necessary in the structure of her department.
- gives head
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of give head
- giving head
- Present participle of give head
- go over someone's head
- To take up an issue with another person's boss or other superior rather than beginning or continuing to deal with the original person
She went over his head and took her complaint directly to the president of the company.
- go to someone's head
- To strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of their senses or mental faculties
For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that had gone to my head and released this flood of tears.
- hand someone his head
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- hard head
- A crooked organiser of a two-up game, who would cheat players out of their money. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.)
- have a head for
- to be capable with, to be knowledgeable about
I can't come rock climbing because I don't have a head for heights.
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- To be particularly, especially uncannily, observant; a perceived ability to see in all directions at once
It's so busy at our office you need eyes in the back of your head to work there!.
- have one's head in the clouds
- To daydream; to think about matters other than the present reality
He sat there with his head in the clouds all day, when he should have been minding the store.
- have one's head in the clouds
- To have fantastic or impractical dreams; to think impractically
He has his head in the clouds when it comes to finances, with no idea how much that lifestyle will cost.
- head
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex
She gave great head.
- 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.
- head
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel
- head
- The principal operative part of a machine
lacrosse The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- head
- To be in command of. - see also head up
Who heads the board of trustees?.
- head
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
- head
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs
- head
- The top edge of a sail
- head
- Placed at the top or the front
- head
- 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.
- head
- 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.
- head
- 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.
- head
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound
Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
- head
- Foremost in rank or importance
The head cook.
- head
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- head
- A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum
Give me a head of lettuce.
- head
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint
- head
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked
- head
- Topic; subject
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
- head
- 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.
- head
- The end of an abscess where pus collects
- head
- A headland
- head
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication
he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the ‘head’ that followed after drink.
- head
- To remove the head from a fish
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
- head
- Coming from in front
head wind.
- head
- The toilet of a ship
I've got to go to the head.
- head
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
- head
- The principal melody or theme of a piece
- head
- The headstock of a guitar
- head
- Leader; chief; mastermind
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
- head
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head
- 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.
- head
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight
- head
- The glans penis
- head
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill
He has no head for heights.
- head
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part
What does it say on the head of the page?.
- head
- A single animal
they shot 20 head of quail.
- head
- Mind; one's own thoughts
This song keeps going through my head.
- head
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession
- head
- An individual person
Admission is three dollars a head.
- 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
- head
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) The front, as of a queue
Because you got them all right, you can go to the head.
- head
- denouement; crisis
These isses are going to come to a head today.
- head
- The population of game
planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves.
- head
- Headway; progress
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
- head
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point
- head
- The bow of a nautical vessel
- head
- A headmaster or headmistress
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
- 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 begin moving away
We will head off on our holidays tomorrow.
- head off
- To intercept
The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.
- head off
- To avoid some usually negative consequence
The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.
- head office
- The main administrative centre for a company or organisation
- head over heels
- Tumbling upside down
She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.
- head over heels
- At top speed; frantically
Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.
- head over heels
- Hopelessly smitten
He was head over heels in love with the girl next door.
- 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
- 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 start
- A factor conducive to superiority and success
His father's money gave him a head start in life.
- 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
- hex head bolt
- A bolt with a hexagonal head
- hex head bolts
- plural form of hex head bolt
- hex head screw
- A screw with a hexagonal head
- hex head screws
- plural form of hex head screw
- hex head wrench
- A screwdriver whose handle and hexagonal head are at right angles
- hex head wrenches
- plural form of hex head wrench
- hit the head
- to urinate or defecate; to go to the bathroom
- hit the nail on the head
- To identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer
He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.
- hold one's head above water
- Alternative form of keep one's head above water
- hold over someone's head
- To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)
I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.
- keep a cool head
- to keep one's cool; to stay calm
- keep one's head
- To remain calm, reasonable, level-headed, especially in a situation likely to cause distress
Officials are calling the woman a hero for keeping her head and finding the only way out amid the panic of the smoke and flames.
- keep one's head above the water
- Alternative form of keep one's head above water
- keep one's head above water
- To survive or endure, especially in a situation in which one is struggling to avoid being overwhelmed by adverse financial circumstances
Strong sales in Europe and Asia are helping Tiffany keep its head above water at a time when US consumers are holding onto their wallets.
- keep one's head on one's shoulders
- Alternative form of keep one's head
- keep one's head upon one's shoulders
- Alternative form of keep one's head
- laugh one's head off
- To laugh uproariously
- like a hole in one's head
- Not
- like a hole in the head
- Not
- little head
- The glans of the penis
Obsessed with Heidi's cleavage, the pervert within may start thinking with his little head instead of his big one.
- lose one's head
- To behave irrationally or to lose one's self-control, especially in a distressing situation
He never lost his head in a crisis, Mr. Mandela wrote of his comrade.
- make head or tail of
- To understand even minimally
See if you can make head or tail of this chapter. I'm baffled.
- make head or tail of
- To determine to be good or bad
- melon head
- A dimwit, a fool
Why should I shake his hand? He called me a melon head. - , 1992.
- melon head
- A melon-headed whale
- mop head
- A type of haircut similar to that worn by The Beatles in the early 1960s
