Sekirov Dictionary

head

/hɛd/

noun68

  1. the part of the body that holds the brain, eyes, ears and mouth
  2. A leader or expert.
  3. (UK, Ireland) A headteacher.
  4. (figurative) Mind; one's own thoughts.
  5. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  6. The end of a table.
  7. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
  8. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
  9. The uppermost part of a valley.
  10. A leading component.
  11. The top edge of a sail.
  12. The bow of a vessel.
  13. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
  14. A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
  15. (figurative) An individual person.
  16. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener.
  17. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
  18. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
  19. The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
  20. Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
  21. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
  22. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
  23. A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
  24. Denouement; crisis.
  25. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
  26. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
  27. The leafy top part of a tree.
  28. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
  29. A title or heading in a book or other document.
  30. Topic; subject.
  31. Ellipsis of headline.
  32. Pressure and energy.
  33. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
  34. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
  35. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
  36. (slang, vulgar) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  37. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
  38. The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
  39. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
  40. The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
  41. The toilet of a ship.
  42. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
  43. The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
  44. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
  45. The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
  46. Headway; progress.
  47. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  48. (slang, figurative) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
  49. A significant or important part.
  50. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
  51. A component.
  52. The end of an abscess where pus collects.
  53. 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.
  54. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
  55. The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
  56. The glans penis.
  57. (UK) A headland.
  58. (slang) An old head.
  59. The principal melody or theme of a piece.
  60. The population of game.
  61. The headstock of a guitar.
  62. A headdress; a covering for the head.
  63. Synonym of tidal bore.
  64. The antlers of a deer.
  65. The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
  66. (UK) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
  67. [in the plural] Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
  68. (no longer used) Power; armed force.

verb14

  1. To move in a specified direction.
  2. To be in command of. (See also head up.)
  3. To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
  4. To go in front of.
  5. To strike with the head
  6. To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
  7. To check or restrain.
  8. To remove the head from (a fish).
  9. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  10. To form a head.
  11. To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
  12. To set on the head.
  13. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  14. (no longer used) To behead; to decapitate.

adjective4

  1. Foremost in rank or importance.
  2. Coming from in front.
  3. Placed at the top or the front.
  4. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
forms

headed · heading · heads

Phrases with head

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