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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of head gathered in one view.

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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"

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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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for head.

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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"

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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"

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

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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"

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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"

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

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

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

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

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

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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"

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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

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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"

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

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

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

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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"

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

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remove the head of; "head the fish"

Example sentences

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.

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.