English Dictionary

head

/ˈhɛd/

noun

(people) To do with heads. / (animals) To do with heads. / The end of a table. / (countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

She shook her head in disbelief.

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(people) To do with heads.

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(animals) To do with heads.

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The end of a table.

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(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

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(uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

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

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(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

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(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.

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(Britain, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

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(journalism) Short for headline.

The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.

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(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

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(music) The headstock of a guitar.

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(nautical) A leading component.

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(Britain) A headland.

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The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.

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(metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.

I'd like to speak to the head of the department.

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(metonymically) A headmaster or headmistress.

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'

She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

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(music, slang, figuratively, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

Only true heads know this.

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A beginning or end, a protuberance.

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A component.

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Headway; progress.

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

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Topic; subject.

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

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(only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.

These isses are going to come to a head today.

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(uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

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

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

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(slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

She gave great head.

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(slang) The glans penis.

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(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.

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(obsolete) Power; armed force.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head: