Head in a sentence as a noun

If you're a programmer, your prime is still 20 years ahead of you.

But I'm scared, because in the back of my head I am pretty certain it will.

You won't realise it, but you can get your head down and 3 months later you haven't seen anyone recently, cos y'know, work.

One head in particular treated the thing as a near-existential threat.

Every talking head sounds the same, and the news is always obviously slanted to one side or the other.

Head in a sentence as a verb

By the time we reached Calculus I was still doing most of it in my head, as I had never really learned to write it out on paper.

As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops.

In India we say that if you have two meals a day, and a roof over your head, you're already rich!Consider that, some posts here say that SV millionaires do not consider themselves upper class.

To which a third developer responds indignantly that the "official" workaround for this issue is sufficient and that the user should head over to the corresponding wiki page and improve the workaround description.

Head definitions

noun

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"

See also: caput

noun

a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle"

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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"

See also: mind brain psyche nous

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a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation"

See also: chief

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the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack"

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the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam"

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the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list"

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the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"

See also: fountainhead headspring

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(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

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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"

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a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"

See also: capitulum

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the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

See also: principal

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an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head"

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a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads"

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a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

See also: promontory headland foreland

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a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet"

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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"

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the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column"

See also: forefront

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a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"

See also: pass straits

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forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"

See also: headway

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a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"

See also: point

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the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"

See also: question

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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 header

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the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus"

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that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

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(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

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(usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!"

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the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer"

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(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

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a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin"

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a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

See also: drumhead

noun

oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head"

verb

to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains"

verb

be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?"

See also: lead

verb

travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John"

See also: lead

verb

be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class"

verb

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

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take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"

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be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president"

verb

form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year"

verb

remove the head of; "head the fish"