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WIKTIONARY
heading
Verb
  • ∙ present participle of head
Noun
  • ∙ The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
  • ∙ The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading) nautical
  • ∙ Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
  • ∙ A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. mining
  • ∙ The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. sewing
  • ∙ The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. masonry
head
Noun
  • ∙ The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. countable
    • ∙ To do with heads. people
    • ∙ To do with heads. animals
  • ∙ The topmost, foremost, or leading part. countable
    • ∙ The end of a table.
    • ∙ The principal operative part of a machine or tool. countable
    • ∙ The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
    • ∙ The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel. engineering
    • ∙ Deposits near the top of a geological succession. Britain, geology
    • ∙ The end of an abscess where pus collects. medicine
    • ∙ The headstock of a guitar. music
    • ∙ A leading component. nautical
    • ∙ A headland. Britain
  • ∙ A leader or expert. social, countable
    • ∙ The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
    • ∙ Leader; chief; mastermind.
    • ∙ A headmaster or headmistress.
    • ∙ A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop. music, slang
  • ∙ A significant or important part.
    • ∙ A beginning or end, a protuberance.
    • ∙ A component.
  • ∙ Headway; progress.
  • ∙ Topic; subject.
  • ∙ Denouement; crisis. uncountable
  • ∙ Pressure and energy. fluid dynamics
    • ∙ A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
    • ∙ The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
    • ∙ More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
  • ∙ Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. slang, uncountable
  • ∙ The glans penis. slang
  • ∙ A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. slang, countable
  • ∙ Power; armed force. obsolete
Adjective
  • ∙ Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  • ∙ Foremost in rank or importance.
  • ∙ Placed at the top or the front.
  • ∙ Coming from in front.
Verb
  • ∙ To be in command of. (See also head up.) transitive
  • ∙ To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball transitive
  • ∙ To move in a specified direction. intransitive
  • ∙ To remove the head from a fish. fishing
  • ∙ To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river. intransitive
  • ∙ To form a head. intransitive
  • ∙ To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  • ∙ To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  • ∙ To behead; to decapitate. obsolete
  • ∙ To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
  • ∙ To set on the head.