Header in a sentence as a noun

VLC will happily play files without any header/TOC or whatever.

Obviously old code won't include this header and is insulated from the change.

There are currently 24 contiguous bytes of unused space in the SQLite header.

The new one is a mess of plain colored boxes, where you have to spend time figuring out what is a header, what is a row, etc.

If you add the "max-stale" header to your content you can tell your CDN to hold on to things longer in the event of an outage.

As a result, recompiling all of them after changing the tiny shared header took many hours.

I like that they have a plausible migration story for how to interoperate with existing header files.

It's not well understood, and using bool in a library header may conflict with another definition of bool in the project.

This works exactly as you describe - the app sets a cache header on the response and Google's geographically distributed front end servers will serve the cached response.

"So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical.

Header definitions

noun

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"

See also: heading head

noun

horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

See also: lintel

noun

brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

See also: coping cope

noun

a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters

noun

a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon

noun

(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head

noun

a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"