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Definition head

Etymology 1

From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English h?afod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-Germanic *haubud? (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput-, a variant of *kap?lo- (“head, bowl”).

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads)

1. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
   1. (people) To do with heads.
      1. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
      2. Mind; one's own thoughts.
      3. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
      4. A headdress; a covering for the head.
      5. An individual person.
   2. (animals) To do with heads.
      1. (uncountable, measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
      2. The population of game.
      3. The antlers of a deer.
2. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
   1. The end of a table.
      1. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
      2. (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
   2. (countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
      1. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
      2. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
      3. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
      4. (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
      5. (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
      6. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
      7. (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
      8. (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
   3. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
   4. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
   5. (Britain, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
   6. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
   7. (music) The headstock of a guitar.
   8. (nautical) A leading component.
      1. The top edge of a sail.
      2. The bow of a vessel.
   9. (Britain) A headland.
3. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
   1. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
   2. Leader; chief; mastermind.
   3. A headmaster or headmistress.
   4. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
4. A significant or important part.
   1. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
      1. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
      2. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
         1. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
         2. The leafy top part of a tree.
      3. (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
      4. (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
      5. (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
   2. A component.
      1. (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
      2. (linguistics) 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.
5. Headway; progress.
6. Topic; subject.
7. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
8. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
   1. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
   2. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
   3. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
9. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
10. (slang) The glans penis.
11. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
12. (obsolete) Power; armed force.

Adjective

head (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Verb

head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)

1. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
2. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
3. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
4. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
5. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
6. (intransitive) To form a head.
7. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
8. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
9. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
10. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
11. To set on the head.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hed, heved, heaved, hæfedd, from Old English h?afod- (“principal, main, primary”), from Proto-Germanic *haubuda-, *haubida-, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput- (“head”). Compare Saterland Frisian hööft-, West Frisian haad-, Dutch hoofd-, German Low German höövd-, German haupt-.

Adjective

head (not comparable)

1. Foremost in rank or importance.
2. Placed at the top or the front.
3. Coming from in front.

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