What does head mean?

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hɛdhead

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word head.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. head, caputnoun

    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"

  2. headnoun

    a single domestic animal

    "200 head of cattle"

  3. mind, head, brain, psyche, nousnoun

    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"

  4. head, chief, top dognoun

    a person who is in charge

    "the head of the whole operation"

  5. headnoun

    the front of a military formation or procession

    "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack"

  6. headnoun

    the pressure exerted by a fluid

    "a head of steam"

  7. headnoun

    the top of something

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

  8. fountainhead, headspring, headnoun

    the source of water from which a stream arises

    "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"

  9. head, head wordnoun

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

  10. headnoun

    the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

  11. headnoun

    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"

  12. capitulum, headnoun

    a dense cluster of flowers or foliage

    "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce"

  13. principal, school principal, head teacher, headnoun

    the educator who has executive authority for a school

    "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

  14. headnoun

    an individual person

    "tickets are $5 per head"

  15. headnoun

    a user of (usually soft) drugs

    "the office was full of secret heads"

  16. promontory, headland, head, forelandnoun

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

  17. headnoun

    a rounded compact mass

    "the head of a comet"

  18. headnoun

    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"

  19. forefront, headnoun

    the part in the front or nearest the viewer

    "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column"

  20. pass, head, straitsnoun

    a difficult juncture

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

  21. headway, headnoun

    forward movement

    "the ship made little headway against the gale"

  22. point, headnoun

    a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

    "the point of the arrow was due north"

  23. question, headnoun

    the subject matter at issue

    "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets"

  24. heading, header, headnoun

    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"

  25. headnoun

    the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint

    "the head of the humerus"

  26. headnoun

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

  27. read/write head, headnoun

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

  28. headnoun

    (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head

    "call heads or tails!"

  29. headnoun

    the striking part of a tool

    "the head of the hammer"

  30. headnoun

    (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

  31. headnoun

    a projection out from one end

    "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin"

  32. drumhead, headnoun

    a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

  33. oral sex, headverb

    oral stimulation of the genitals

    "they say he gives good head"

  34. headverb

    to go or travel towards

    "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains"

  35. head, leadverb

    be in charge of

    "Who is heading this project?"

  36. lead, headverb

    travel in front of; go in advance of others

    "The procession was headed by John"

  37. head, head upverb

    be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel

    "This student heads the class"

  38. steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channeliseverb

    direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

  39. headverb

    take its rise

    "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"

  40. headverb

    be in the front of or on top of

    "The list was headed by the name of the president"

  41. headverb

    form a head or come or grow to a head

    "The wheat headed early this year"

  42. headverb

    remove the head of

    "head the fish"

Wiktionary

  1. headnoun

    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. headnoun

    Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

  3. headnoun

    Mind; one's own thoughts.

    This song keeps going through my head.

  4. headnoun

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

    What does it say on the head of the page?

  5. headnoun

    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.

  6. headnoun

    The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

  7. headnoun

    The principal operative part of a simple machine or tool.

  8. headnoun

    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.

  9. headnoun

    The front, as of a queue.

    Because you got them all right, you can go to the head.

  10. headverb

    To be in command of. - see also head up

    Who heads the board of trustees?

  11. headverb

    To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

  12. headverb

    To move in a specified direction. heading towards something

  13. headverb

    To remove the head from a fish.

    The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

  14. headnoun

    Headway; progress.

    We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

  15. headnoun

    The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

    Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.

  16. headnoun

    Leader; chief; mastermind.

  17. headnoun

    A headmaster or headmistress.

    I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.

  18. headnoun

    A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

  19. headnoun

    A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

    Give me a head of lettuce.

  20. headnoun

    The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

  21. headnoun

    An individual person.

    Admission is three dollars a head.

  22. headnoun

    A single animal.

  23. headnoun

    The population of game.

  24. headnoun

    Topic; subject.

    We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

  25. headnoun

    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.

  26. headnoun

    The principal melody or theme of a piece.

  27. headnoun

    Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

  28. headnoun

    The end of an abscess where pus collects.

  29. headnoun

    denouement; crisis

    These isses are going to come to a head today.

  30. headnoun

    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.

  31. headnoun

    The headstock of a guitar.

  32. headnoun

    A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

    Tap the head of the drum for this roll.

  33. headnoun

    The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

  34. headnoun

    The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

  35. headnoun

    A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

    Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

  36. headnoun

    The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

  37. headnoun

    More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

  38. headnoun

    The top edge of a sail.

  39. headnoun

    The bow of a nautical vessel.

  40. headnoun

    The toilet of a ship.

    I've got to go to the head.

  41. headnoun

    Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

    She gave great head.

  42. headnoun

    The glans penis.

  43. headnoun

    A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

  44. headnoun

    A headland.

  45. headnoun

    The part of hard drives responsible for reading and writing data.

  46. headadjective

    Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

  47. headadjective

    Foremost in rank or importance.

    The head cook.

  48. headadjective

    Placed at the top or the front.

  49. headadjective

    Coming from in front.

  50. headnoun

    Plural form of vertebra.

  51. headnoun

    Plural form of idea.

  52. Headnoun

    A surname, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. HEADnoun

    Etymology: heafod, Heafd, Saxon; hoofd, Dutch; heved, old English, whence by contraction head.

    Vein healing verven, and head purging dill. Edmund Spenser.

    Over head up-grew
    Insuperable height of loftiest shade. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

    My head geers off, what filthy work you make. Dryden.

    The dewy paths of meadows we will tread,
    For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head. Dryden.

    I could still have offers, that some, who hold their heads higher, would be glad to accept. Jonathan Swift.

    What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

    Who of all ages to succeed, but feeling
    The evil on him brought by me, will curse
    My head? ill fare our ancestor impure. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

    In jingling rhimes well fortify’d and strong,
    He fights intrench’d o’er head and ears in song. George Granville.

    When Innocent XI. desired the marquis of Carpio to furnish thirty thousand head of swine, he could not spare them; but thirty thousand lawyers he had at his service. Addison.

    The tax upon pasturage was raised according to a certain rate per head upon cattle. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    For their commons, there is little danger from them, except it be where they have great and potent heads. Francis Bacon.

    Your head I him appoint;
    And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow
    All knees in heav’n, and shall confess him lord. John Milton.

    The heads of the chief sects of philosophy, as Thales, Anaxagoras, and Pythagoras, did likewise consent to this tradition. John Tillotson, Sermons.

    Notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them, could do nothing against an enemy. Joseph Addison, on the War.

    Richard not far from hence hath hid his head. William Shakespeare, R. II.

    With Cain go wander through the shade of night,
    And never shew thy head by day or light. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

    Ere to-morrow’s sun shall shew his head. Dryden.

    The wenches laid their heads together. Roger L'Estrange.

    A fox and a goat went down a well to drink: the goat fell to hunting which way to get back; oh, says Reynard, never trouble your head, but leave that to me. Roger L'Estrange.

    Work with all the ease and speed you can, without breaking your head, and being so very industrious in starting scruples. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    The lazy and inconsiderate took up their notions by chance, without much beating their heads about them. John Locke.

    If a man shews that he has no religion, why should we think that he beats his head and troubles himself to examine the grounds of this or that doctrine. John Locke.

    When in ordinary discourse we say a man has a fine head, we express ourselves metaphorically, and speak in relation to his understanding; and when we say of a woman she has a fine head, we speak only in relation to her commode. Addison.

    We laid our heads together, to consider what grievances the nation had suffered under king George. Joseph Addison, Freeholder.

    The gathering crowd pursues;
    The ravishers turn head, the fight renews. Dryden.

    Then made he head against his enemies,
    And Hymner slew. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

    Sometimes hath Henry Bolingbroke made head against my power. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

    Two valiant gentlemen first making head against them, seconded by half a dozen more, made forty of them run away. Walter Raleigh, Apology.

    Sin having depraved his judgment, and got possession of his will, there is no other principle left him naturally, by which he can make head against it. Robert South, Sermons.

    The bordering wars in this kingdom were made altogether by voluntaries, upon their own head, without any pay or commission from the state. John Davies, on Ireland.

    It was a buck of the first head. William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour Lost.

    The buck is called the fifth year a buck of the first head. William Shakespeare.

    If there be six millions of people, then there is about four acres for every head. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

    His spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. 1 Sa.

    As high
    As his proud head is rais’d towards the sky,
    So low tow’rds hell his roots descend. John Denham.

    Trees, which have large and spreading heads, would lie with their branches up in the water. John Woodward.

    If the buds are made our food, they are called heads or tops; so heads of asparagus and artichoaks. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    It is an equivocal term; for it signifies the head of a nail, or of a pin, as well as of an animal. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    The horse took the alarm, and made their escape to Winchester, the head quarters. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

    By gallies with brazen heads she might transport over Indus at once three hundred thousand soldiers. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    On oozy ground his gallies moor;
    Their heads are turn’d to sea, their sterns to shore. Dryden.

    Let it stand in a tub four or five days before it be put into the cask, stirring it twice a day, and beating down the head or yeast into it. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

    A man fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve. Deutr. xix. 5.

    Israel bowed upon the bed’s head. Gen. xlvii. 31.

    As eastern priests in giddy circles run,
    And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Alexander Pope, Essays.

    Politick ladies think they gain a great point when they have teazed their husbands to buy them a laced head, or a fine petticoat. Jonathan Swift.

    These heads are of a mixed order, and we propose only such as belong to the natural world. Thomas Burnet, Theo. of the Earth.

    These heads are set down more fully in the arguments of each chapter. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

    ’Tis our great interest, and our chief duty, to satisfy ourselves on this head, upon which our whole conduct depends. Francis Atterbury, Sermons, Preface.

    It is the glory of God to give; his very nature delighteth in it: his mercies in the current, through which they would pass, may be dried up, but at the head they never fail. Richard Hooker.

    The current by Gaza is but a small stream, rising between it and the Red sea, whose head from Gaza is little more than twenty English miles. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Some did the song, and some the choir maintain,
    Beneath a laurel shade, where mighty Po
    Mounts up to woods above, and hides his head below. Dry.

    The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me, or of itself. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    Within her breast though calm, her breast though pure,
    Motherly cares and fears got head, and rais’d
    Some troubled thoughts. John Milton, Paradise Regain’d.

    God will not admit of the passionate man’s apology, that he has so long given his unruly passions their head, that he cannot now govern nor controul them. Robert South, Sermons.

    People under command chuse to consult, and after to march in order; and rebels, contrariwise, run upon an head together in confusion. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

    Let all this wicked crew gather
    Their forces to one head. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

    My lord, my lord, the French have gather’d head. William Shakespeare.

    At sixteen years,
    When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he sought
    Beyond the mark of others. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    A mighty and a fearful head they are,
    As ever offer’d foul play in a state. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Far in the marches here we heard you were,
    Making another head to fight again. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    He gave his able horse the head,
    And bounding forward struck his agile heels
    Against the panting sides of his poor jade
    Up to the rowel-head. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

    How turneps hide their swelling heads below,
    And how the closing coleworts upwards grow. John Gay.

    People that hit upon a thought that tickles them, will be still bringing it in by head and shoulders, over and over, in several companies. Roger L'Estrange.

    They can bring in every odd exception in grammar, every figure of speech, head and shoulders by main force, in spite of nature and their subject. Henry Felton, on the Classicks.

  2. To Headverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Nor is what has been said of princes less true of all other governours, from him that heads an army to him that is master of a family, or of one single servant. South.

    Abas, who seem’d our friend, is either fled,
    Or, what we fear, our enemies does head. John Dryden, Aurengz.

    This lord had headed his appointed bands,
    In firm allegiance to his king’s commands. Matthew Prior.

    If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten years together, you’ll be glad to give out a commission for more heads. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.

    Headed with flints and feathers bloody dy’d,
    Such as the Indians in their quivers hide. Fairy Queen.

    Of cornel-wood a spear upright,
    Headed with piercing steel, and polish’d bright. Dryden.

    You must disbranch them, leaving only the summit entire: unless the soil be very good, it may be necessary to head them too. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

Wikipedia

  1. Head

    A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste, respectively. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size. Heads develop in animals by an evolutionary trend known as cephalization. In bilaterally symmetrical animals, nervous tissues concentrate at the anterior region, forming structures responsible for information processing. Through biological evolution, sense organs and feeding structures also concentrate into the anterior region; these collectively form the head.

ChatGPT

  1. head

    The head is the uppermost part of the human body or an animal that contains the brain, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and other sensory organs. It is responsible for controlling vital functions, processing sensory information, and housing the center of consciousness and cognitive abilities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Headnoun

    the anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon

  2. Headnoun

    the uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler

  3. Headnoun

    the place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head

  4. Headnoun

    the most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like

  5. Headnoun

    the place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers

  6. Headnoun

    each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle

  7. Headnoun

    the seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will

  8. Headnoun

    the source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea

  9. Headnoun

    a headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head

  10. Headnoun

    a separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon

  11. Headnoun

    culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height

  12. Headnoun

    power; armed force

  13. Headnoun

    a headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair

  14. Headnoun

    an ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals

  15. Headnoun

    a dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum

  16. Headnoun

    a dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant

  17. Headnoun

    the antlers of a deer

  18. Headnoun

    a rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor

  19. Headnoun

    tiles laid at the eaves of a house

  20. Headadjective

    principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook

  21. Headverb

    to be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot

  22. Headverb

    to form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail

  23. Headverb

    to behead; to decapitate

  24. Headverb

    to cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees

  25. Headverb

    to go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship

  26. Headverb

    to set on the head; as, to head a cask

  27. Headverb

    to originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river

  28. Headverb

    to go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

  29. Headverb

    to form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early

  30. Etymology: [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. hefod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. hfu, Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.]

Wikidata

  1. Head

    In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do. Heads develop in animals by an evolutionary trend known as cephalization. In bilaterally symmetrical animals, nerve tissues concentrate at the anterior region, forming structures responsible for information processing. Through biological evolution, sense organs and feeding structures also concentrate into the anterior region, which collectively form the head.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Head

    hed, n. the uppermost or foremost part of an animal's body: the brain: the understanding: a chief or leader: the place of honour or command: the front or top of anything: an individual animal or person: a topic or chief point of a discourse: a title, heading: the source or spring: height of the source of water: highest point of anything: culmination: a cape: strength: a froth on beer, porter, &c., when poured into a glass.—v.t. to act as a head to, to lead or govern: to go in front of: to commence: to check: (naut.) to be contrary: (obs.) to behead.—v.i. to grow to a head: to originate: to go head foremost.—n. Head′ache, an internal pain in the head.—adj. Head′achy, afflicted with headaches.—ns. Head′band, a band or fillet for the head: the band at each end of a book: a thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing-press; Head′-block, in a sawmill carriage, a cross-block on which the head of the log rests: a piece of wood in a carriage, connected with the spring and the perches, and joining the fore-gear and the hind-gear; Head′-board, a board placed at the head of anything, esp. a bedstead; Head′-boom, a jib-boom or a flying jib-boom; Head′bor′ough, an old term for the head of a borough, the chief of a frank pledge, tithing, or decennary; Head′-boy, the senior boy in a public school; Head′chair, a high-backed chair with a rest for the head; Head′-cheese, pork-cheese, brawn; Head′-chute, a canvas tube used to convey refuse matter from a ship's bows down to the water; Head′-cloth, a piece of cloth covering the head, wound round a turban, &c.; Head′-dress, an ornamental dress or covering for the head, worn by women.—p.adj. Head′ed, having a head: (Shak.) come to a head.—ns. Head′er, one who puts a head on something: a dive, head foremost, into water: a brick laid lengthwise along the thickness of a wall, serving as a bond: a heavy stone extending through the thickness of a wall; Head′-fast, a rope at the bows of a ship used to fasten it to a wharf, &c.; Head′-frame, the structure over a mine-shaft supporting the head-gear or winding machinery; Head′-gear, gear, covering, or ornament of the head; Head′-hunt′ing, the practice among the Dyaks of Borneo, &c., of making raids to procure human heads for trophies, &c.—adv. Head′ily.—ns. Head′iness; Head′ing, the act of furnishing with a head; that which stands at the head: material forming a head; Head′land, a point of land running out into the sea: a cape.—adj. Head′less, without a head.—ns. Head′-light, a light carried in front of a vessel, locomotive, or vehicle, as a signal, or for light; Head′-line, the line at the head or top of a page containing the folio or number of the page: (pl.) the sails and ropes next the yards (naut.).—adv.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. head

    The upper part or end of anything, as a mast-head, a timber-head. Also, an ornamental figure on a ship's stem expressive of her name, or emblematical of her object, &c. (See BILLET-HEAD, BUST-HEAD, FAMILY-HEAD, FIDDLE-HEAD, FIGURE-HEAD, SCROLL-HEAD, &c.) Also, in a more enlarged sense, the whole fore-part of a ship, including the bows on each side; the head therefore opens the column of water through which the ship passes when advancing; hence we say, head-way, head-sails, head-sea, &c. It is evident that the fore-part of a ship is called its head, from its analogy to that of a fish, or any animal while swimming. Also, in a confined sense, to that part on each side of the stem outside the bows proper which is appropriated to the use of the sailors for wringing swabs, or any wet jobs, for no wet is permitted in-board after the decks are dried. Also, hydrographically, the upper part of a gulf, bay, or creek.--By the head, the state of a ship which, by her lading, draws more water forward than aft. This may be remedied without reference to cargo in ships-of-war, by shifting shot, guns, &c. Vessels by the head are frequently uneasy, gripe and pitch more than when by the stern.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. head

    In gunnery, the fore part of the cheeks of a gun or howitzer carriage. To head, is to lead on, or be the leader of a party. Head of a work, in fortification, is the front next to the enemy, and farthest from the place; as the front of a horn-work is the distance between the flanked angles of the demi-bastions. The head of a double tenaille is the salient angle in the centre and the two other sides which form the re-entering angles. Head of an army, or body of men, is the front, whether drawn up in lines or on a march, in column, etc. Head of a camp, is the ground before which an army is drawn up.

Rap Dictionary

  1. headnoun

    head or heads, pl. (real headz put a z at the end)

  2. headnoun

    A person, or people: real heads; headz ain't ready; mad headz: Mad Hip-Hop headz use the MPC-2000; Real headz think the Black Eyed Peas are a bunch of sell-outs.

  3. headnoun

    Getting head: getting a blow job. All the fellas in the house say this, "This head is so damn good" -- Luke with Notorious B.I.G. (Bust A Nut)

  4. headnoun

    The burning top of a joint or sigarette.

  5. headnoun

    In the Army, the "head" is the toilet.

  6. headnoun

    the Foam on top of beer in your mug.

Editors Contribution

  1. head

    A person with the specific and accurate ability, experience, knowledge, skills, leadership, motivation, inspiration, wisdom, qualities, passion and sense of fairness and justness and teamwork with the role and responsibility to lead, control, manage, motivate, inspire and direct as a facet of their role, responsibilities, job description and person specification.

    The head of government was fair, just, knowledgeable and had a sense of purpose and passion for their role and teamwork.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  


  2. head

    An element of the human body connected to the neck and shoulders.

    Our head is vital wouldn't we agree....


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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Entomology

  1. Head

    the first or anterior region of the insect body, articulated at its base to the thorax, bearing the mouth structures and antennae. It is now believed to be made up of seven primitive segments, named in order: 1, the ocular or protocerebral; 2, the antenna or deutocerebral; 3, second antenna or tritocerebral; 4, mandibular; 5, superlingual; 6, maxillary; 7, labial or 2d maxillary.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HEAD

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Head is ranked #1285 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Head surname appeared 27,292 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Head.

    78.4% or 21,400 total occurrences were White.
    16.7% or 4,563 total occurrences were Black.
    1.8% or 510 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 467 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.8% or 229 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 123 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'head' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #230

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'head' in Written Corpus Frequency: #531

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'head' in Nouns Frequency: #38

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'head' in Verbs Frequency: #338

  5. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'head' in Adjectives Frequency: #756

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of head in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of head in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of head in a Sentence

  1. Chrissie Hynde:

    My father and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye. We argued a lot, but isn’t that the American way? The right to disagree without having your head chopped off?

  2. Stephen King:

    I might have said he had his head somewhere where a certain yoga position would be necessary to get it there, and that was it, man. That was it.

  3. James Wan:

    It was a giant puzzle that was very hard to wrap your head around, no one has faced anything as unprecedented as this. I couldn't just pick up the phone and say 'What did you do when this happened to you?'.

  4. Zvi Ammar:

    Not wearing the kippa can save lives and nothing is more important, it really hurts to reach that point but I don't want anyone to die in Marseille because they have a kippa on their head.

  5. Officer Mason Hagenbucher:

    We would address it appropriately, and in my head -- I dont know if a citation would be appropriate.

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