Head

noun heads · head · 'ead · heead · hed

1. countable 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.
2. countable, uncountable Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
3. countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable Mind; one's own thoughts. This song keeps going through my head.
4. countable, uncountable A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. 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.
5. countable, uncountable A headdress; a covering for the head. a laced head
6. countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable An individual person. Admission is three dollars a head.
7. countable, uncountable A single animal; measure word for livestock and game. 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
8. countable, uncountable The population of game. We have a heavy head of deer this year.
9. countable, uncountable The antlers of a deer.
10. countable The topmost, foremost, or leading part. What does it say at the head of the page?
11. countable, uncountable 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.
12. countable, uncountable The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
13. countable, uncountable The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
14. countable, uncountable The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. Hit the nail on the head!
15. countable, uncountable 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.
16. countable, uncountable Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
17. countable, uncountable The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer. The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
18. countable, uncountable The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
19. countable, uncountable A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound. Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
20. countable, uncountable 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.
21. countable, uncountable The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
22. countable, uncountable The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
23. countable, uncountable A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
24. countable, uncountable The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
25. countable, uncountable The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
26. countable, uncountable The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
27. countable, uncountable The uppermost part of a valley. A deep bed of this red sandstone occurs at the head of the Yen Shui valley, a few miles south of Ching-pien [translating 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān)].
28. UK, countable, uncountable Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
29. countable, uncountable Synonym of tidal bore.
30. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of headline.headline 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.
31. countable, uncountable The end of an abscess where pus collects.
32. countable, uncountable The headstock of a guitar.
33. countable, uncountable The top edge of a sail.
34. countable, uncountable The bow of a vessel.
35. UK, countable, uncountable A headland.
36. countable, uncountable A title or heading in a book or other document. In this repositary, the phenomena of nature are ranged under three principal heads.
37. countable, metonymically A leader or expert. I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
38. countable, metonymically, uncountable The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front. 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.
39. Ireland, UK, countable, metonymically, uncountable A headteacher. 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 a
40. countable, figuratively, metonymically, slang, uncountable A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop. Only true heads know this.
41. countable, metonymically, slang, uncountable An old head.
42. countable, uncountable 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.
43. countable, uncountable A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. Give me a head of lettuce.
44. countable, uncountable An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
45. countable, uncountable The leafy top part of a tree.
46. countable, uncountable The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
47. countable, uncountable The toilet of a ship. I've got to go to the head.
48. countable, in plural, uncountable Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house
49. countable, uncountable The principal melody or theme of a piece.
50. countable, uncountable 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. Holonym: phrase
51. countable, uncountable The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
52. countable, uncountable Headway; progress. We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
53. countable, uncountable Topic; subject. We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
54. countable, singular, uncountable Denouement; crisis. These issues are going to come to a head today.
55. countable, uncountable A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head. Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
56. countable, uncountable The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
57. countable, uncountable More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
58. slang, uncountable, vulgar Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. She gave great head.
59. countable, slang, uncountable The glans penis.
60. countable, slang A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. 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

Similar: bean, beaner, belfry, block, bonce, brainbox, brain bucket, calabash, dome, head, loaf, lolly

adjective 'ead · heead · hed

1. not comparable Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

verb heads · heading · headed · 'ead · heead

1. transitive To be in command of. (See also head up.) Who heads the board of trustees?
2. transitive To come at the beginning or front of; to commence. A group of clowns headed the procession.
3. transitive To strike with the head to head the ball
4. intransitive To move in a specified direction. We are going to head up North for our holiday.
5. transitive To remove the head from (a fish). Near-synonyms: behead, dehead
6. intransitive To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river. a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
7. intransitive To form a head. This kind of cabbage heads early.
8. transitive, usually To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head. to head a nail
9. transitive To cut off the top of; to lop off. to head trees
10. obsolete, transitive To behead; to decapitate. I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
11. To go in front of. to head a drove of cattle
12. To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose. The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
13. broadly To check or restrain.
14. To set on the head. to head a cask

adjective

1. not comparable Foremost in rank or importance. the head cook
2. not comparable Placed at the top or the front.
3. not comparable Coming from in front. head sea

proper noun

1. 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.