Definition of heads Heads
/hɛˈdz/ - [hedz] - heads
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Wiktionary 
- heads (Noun)
Plural of head. - heads (Noun)
That part of older sailing ship s forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship. - heads (Noun)
The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar. - heads (Noun)
Abbreviation for headphones. - heads (Noun)
Draft scheme of a bill#Noun bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament. - heads (Noun)
High-grade marijuana.
Part of speech
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| head - a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" | ||
| chief, top dog | ||
| leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others | ||
| administrator, executive someone who manages a government agency or department | ||
| decision maker, administrator someone who manages a government agency or department | ||
| capo the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate | ||
| department head the head of a department | ||
| don, father a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto" | ||
| superior general, general a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" | ||
| general manager the highest ranking manager | ||
| grand dragon a high ranking person in the Ku Klux Klan | ||
| head of household the head of a household or family or tribe | ||
| head - 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" | ||
| caput | ||
| external body part any body part visible externally | ||
| organic structure, physical structure, body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| muzzle forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | ||
| ear the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium | ||
| arteria basilaris, basilar artery an unpaired artery; supplies the pons and cerebellum and the back part of the cerebrum and the inner ear | ||
| encephalon, brain that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | ||
| human head the head of a human being | ||
| skull the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | ||
| human face, face a vertical surface of a building or cliff | ||
| head - the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" | ||
| formation the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | ||
| armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | ||
| head - a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin" | ||
| projection any structure that branches out from a central support | ||
| nail a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener | ||
| screw a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head | ||
| pin a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things | ||
| bolt a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | ||
| head - the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" | ||
| striker the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | ||
| hammer the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" | ||
| ram uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" | ||
| face a vertical surface of a building or cliff | ||
| club-head, club head, clubhead, golf-club head (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | ||
| head - a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads" | ||
| drug user, substance abuser, user a person who takes drugs | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
| acid head someone who takes LSD | ||
| hash head a user of hashish | ||
| pill head a consumer of amphetamine pills | ||
| head - (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" | ||
| obverse the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | ||
| coin a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money | ||
| plural, plural form the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | ||
| head - the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" | ||
| top a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top" | ||
| head - the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) | ||
| tip, peak, point an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" | ||
| head - (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent | ||
| head word | ||
| word a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" | ||
| head - that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves | ||
| anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" | ||
| head - the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus" | ||
| head - 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" | ||
| head - a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet" | ||
| head - (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship | ||
| head - an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head" | ||
| head - the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam" | ||
| head - 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" | ||
| head - a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" | ||
| head - 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" | ||
| heading, header | ||
| line acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line" | ||
| crossheading, crosshead a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | ||
| headline, newspaper headline the heading or caption of a newspaper article | ||
| lemma the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry | ||
| rubric category name; "it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'" | ||
| running head, running headline a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book | ||
| subhead, subheading a heading of a subdivision of a text | ||
| head - a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | ||
| promontory, headland, foreland | ||
| natural elevation, elevation a raised or elevated geological formation | ||
| mull an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides | ||
| head - 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" | ||
| mind, brain, psyche, nous | ||
| cognition, knowledge, noesis the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | ||
| noddle an informal British expression for head or mind; "use your noddle" | ||
| tabula rasa a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke) | ||
| ego (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind | ||
| unconscious, unconscious mind that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware | ||
| head - the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" | ||
| principal, school principal, head teacher | ||
| educator, pedagog, pedagogue someone who educates young people | ||
| chancellor the honorary or titular head of a university | ||
| headmaster, schoolmaster, master presiding officer of a school | ||
| head - the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" | ||
| forefront | ||
| forepart, front end, front the side that is seen or that goes first | ||
| head - the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets" | ||
| question | ||
| topic, theme, subject some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" | ||
| problem a question raised for consideration or solution; "our homework consisted of ten problems to solve" | ||
| question of fact, matter of fact a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide | ||
| head - forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale" | ||
| headway | ||
| progress, progression, advance the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | ||
| head - oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head" | ||
| oral sex | ||
| sexual perversion, perversion the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice" | ||
| cunnilinctus, cunnilingus oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | ||
| fellatio, fellation oral stimulation of the penis | ||
| head - a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | ||
| drumhead | ||
| membrane a thin pliable sheet of material | ||
| head - a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" | ||
| point | ||
| mark the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember; "it was in London that he made his mark"; "he left an indelible mark on the American theater" | ||
| head - (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk | ||
| read/write head | ||
| coil a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" | ||
| head - a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" | ||
| capitulum | ||
| head - a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" | ||
| pass, straits | ||
| head - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" | ||
| fountainhead, headspring | ||
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| head - be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" | ||
| lead | ||
| direct command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework" | ||
| chairman, chair act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" | ||
| captain be the captain of a sports team | ||
| spearhead be the leader of; "She spearheaded the effort to find a cure for the disease" | ||
| take charge, take control, take hold assume control | ||
| head - be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president" | ||
| lie tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29" | ||
| surmount be on top of; "The scarf surmounted the gown" | ||
| crown be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" | ||
| head - to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" | ||
| go forward, proceed, continue follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" | ||
| take, make ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" | ||
| head - be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class" | ||
| head up | ||
| head, lead remove the head of; "head the fish" | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| head - remove the head of; "head the fish" | ||
| take away, remove, withdraw, take take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" | ||
| head - form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year" | ||
| form assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads" | ||
| head - take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas" | ||
| spring up, originate, arise, uprise, grow, rise, develop bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" | ||
| head - direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | ||
| steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, guide, channelize, channelise | ||
| command, control make someone do something | ||
| dock maneuver into a dock; "dock the ships" | ||
| sheer cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle" | ||
| pull over steer a vehicle to the side of the road; "The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed" | ||
| helm be at or take the helm of; "helm the ship" | ||
| crab fish for crab | ||
| navigate direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar" | ||
| stand out be stubborn in resolution or resistance | ||
| starboard turn to the right, of helms or rudders | ||
| conn conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane | ||
| pilot, navigate direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar" | ||
| canalise, canalize, channel direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience" | ||
| corner, tree turn a corner; "the car corners" | ||
| park place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker" | ||
| head - travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" | ||
| lead | ||
| precede, lead furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" | ||
| draw away move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race | ||
| head up, head remove the head of; "head the fish" | ||
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Wiktionary
- head (Noun)
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. - head (Noun)
Mind; one's own thoughts. - head (Noun)
The topmost, foremost, or leading part. - head (Noun)
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor. - head (Noun)
The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked. - head (Noun)
The principal operative part of a simple machine or tool. - head (Noun)
The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. - head (Noun)
Hit the nail on the head! - head (Noun)
The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer. - head (Noun)
The head of the compass needle is pointing due north. - head (Noun)
The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball. - head (Noun)
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it. - head (Noun)
The front, as of a queue. - head (Noun)
Headway; progress. - head (Noun)
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. - head (Noun)
Leader; chief; mastermind. - head (Noun)
A headmaster or headmistress. - head (Noun)
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. - head (Noun)
A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum. - head (Noun)
The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. - head (Noun)
An individual person. - head (Noun)
A single animal. - head (Noun)
The population of game. - head (Noun)
Topic; subject. - head (Noun)
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. - head (Noun)
The principal melody or theme of a piece. - head (Noun)
Deposits near the top of a geological succession. - head (Noun)
The end of an abscess where pus collects. - head (Noun)
denouement; crisis. - head (Noun)
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium. - head (Noun)
The headstock of a guitar. - head (Noun)
A drum head , the membrane which is hit to produce sound. - head (Noun)
A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop . - head (Noun)
The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel . - head (Noun)
The cylinder head , a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine , containing the valves and spark plug s. - head (Noun)
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head . - head (Noun)
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point. - head (Noun)
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight. - head (Noun)
The top edge of a sail. - head (Noun)
The bow of a nautical vessel. - head (Noun)
The toilet of a ship. - head (Noun)
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex . - head (Noun)
The glans penis . - head (Noun)
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. - head (Noun)
A headland. - head (Noun)
The part of hard drive s responsible for reading and writing data. - head (Verb)
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball. - head (Verb)
To move in a specified direction. - head (Verb)
To remove the head from a fish. - head (Verb)
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river. - head (Verb)
To form a head. - head (Adjective)
Of, relating to, or intended for the head. - head (Adjective)
Foremost in rank or importance. - head (Adjective)
Placed at the top or the front. - head (Adjective)
Coming from in front.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
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. - head (n.)
A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. - head (n.)
A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. - head (n.)
Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. - head (n.)
Power; armed force. - head (n.)
A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. - head (n.)
An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. - head (n.)
A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. - head (n.)
A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. - head (n.)
The antlers of a deer. - head (n.)
A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. - head (n.)
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. - head (a.)
Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook. - head (v. t.)
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. - head (v. t.)
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. - head (v. t.)
To behead; to decapitate. - head (v. t.)
To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. - head (v. t.)
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. - head (v. t.)
To set on the head; as, to head a cask. - head (v. i.)
To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. - head (v. i.)
To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? - head (v. i.)
To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. -
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A person who leads, rules, or is in charge. -
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The complex of cognitive faculties, mostly characteristic of human beings, that enables consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, and judgement.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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. Head′long, with the head foremost or first: without thought, rashly: precipitately.—adj. rash: precipitous, steep.—adj. Head′-lugged (Shak.), lugged or dragged along by the head.—ns. Head′-man, a chief, a leader; Head′mark, a characteristic peculiar to a certain class; Head′-mas′ter, the principal master of a school; Head′-mold, the skull proper: (archit.) a moulding round or over the head of a door, &c.; Head′-money, a tax counted per head: a reward by the head for persons captured at sea, &c.: a reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.—adj. Head′most, most advanced, or forward.—ns. Head′-note, a note placed at the head of a chapter or page, esp. a condensed statement of points of law involved introductory to the report of a legal decision; Head′piece, a helmet: a hat: head, intelligence: (print.) a decorative engraving placed at the top of the first page of a volume, and at the beginning of books, chapters, &c.; Head′-pump, a small pump at a ship's bows to pump up sea-water for washing decks.—n.pl. Head′quarters, the quarters or residence of a commander-in-chief or general.—ns. Head′-race, the race which brings the water to a water-wheel; Head′-reach, the distance to windward made by a vessel while tacking.—v.i. to shoot ahead, in tacking.—ns. Head′-rest, a support for the head, esp. the adjustable apparatus of the barber's chair, and that used by the photographer to steady the sitter's head; Head′-ring, a palm-leaf ornament worn by Kaffir men in their hair after marriage; Head′-shake, a significant shake or motion of the head; Head′-ship, the office of a head or chief authority: dignity; Heads′man, a man who cuts off heads: an executioner; Head′stall, the part of a bridle round the head; Head′-stā′tion, the dwelling-house, &c., on an Australian sheep or cattle station; Head′-stick (print.), a straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type; Head′stone, the principal stone of a building: the corner-stone: the stone at the head of a grave; Head′-stream, the highest of the streams which combine to form a river.—adj. Head′strong, self-willed: obstinate.—ns. Head′-tire, a head-dress; Head′-wa′ter, the highest part of a stream, before receiving affluents; Head′way, motion ahead, esp. of a ship; Head′-wind, a wind blowing right against a ship's head; Head′-word, a title word or heading usually in distinctive type; Head′-work, intellectual labour.—adj. Head′y, affecting the head or the brain: intoxicating: inflamed: rash: violent.—Head and ears, with the whole person: completely; Head and shoulders, very much, as if taller by a head and shoulders: violently; Head foremost, with the head first, esp. of falling from a height; Head or tail, the side of a coin with the sovereign's head, or the reverse: a phrase used in tossing up a coin to decide a point ('to make neither head nor tail of anything'—to be unable to understand it); Head over heels, in a somersault.—Come to a head, to reach a climax; Eat one's head off, to be consumed with mortification; Go by the head, to sink head foremost; Have a head on one's shoulders, to have brains or ability; Head off, to prevent by some counteraction; Lose one's head, to become very much excited: to lose presence of mind; Make head against, to resist successfully: to advance; Off one's head, demented, crazy; Out of one's own head, spontaneously; Over head and ears, deeply engrossed; Turn a person's head (see Turn). [A.S. héafod, Dut. hoofd, Ger. haupt.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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an ornamental figure erected on the continuation of a ship’s stem, as being expressive of her name, and emblematical of war, navigation, commerce, &c.The heads which have any affinity to war or navigation, are in general either historical, as referring to some of the deities or heroes of antiquity; or allegorical, as alluding to some of the natural consequences of battle, or the virtues most essential to a life exposed to perpetual danger. Thus, in the former sense, they represent a Neptune, an Alcides; a Mars, an Achilles; a Minerva, or a Jason; and in the latter they produce a Magnanime, an Intrepid, a Revenge, or a Victory.The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. Various instances might be produced to shew, that our artists, as it suits their conveniency or judgment, can dispense with this supposed idea of propriety. Hence we sometimes observe the place of a Jason supplied by a Medea; or a best of prey made the representative of an illustrious lady. The same liberty of design may therefore, with equal propriety, be allowed to symbolize the successes of our arms, by a groupe of heterogeneous figures, of sundry shapes and sizes, according to the artists opinion of their superiority or subordination. Their attitude and situation, as well as their size, must accordingly depend, in a great measure, on the space into which they are to be crowded: for although the figures may be of equal importance in themselves, yet as there is not room for them all, as large as the life, on a ship’s head, it becomes expedient to diminish a few, in order to give place to others. The emblems by which allegorical figures are usually characterized in painting, poetry, and sculpture, are not always thought necessary in a work of this kind, nor even the postures in which these figures are exhibited. And indeed, if we reflect with how much labour and application the workman has endeavoured to fill up every vacancy with some little figure of a convenient form and size, we ought rather to admire his ingenuity than censure him for a violation of those general rules of art, by which it is supposed necessary, on such occasions, to relieve the eye from a scene of perplexity and confusion.The heads of many of our ships of war have undoubtedly great beauty and propriety; and candour must acknowledge that some of the most elegant and judicious have been borrowed from the French designs, which are never left to the invention of illiterate mechanics. A multitude of ornaments appears rather unnecessary in any building calculated for the purposes of war. If there be any general rule to determine the subjects, and the quantity of sculpture employed in ship-building, it seems to be connected with the ideas of dignity and simplicity. These too are the genuine characteristics of the Grecian and Roman orders of architecture, as opposed to that perplexity, and rage for embellishment, which peculiarly distinguish the Gothic. It is hardly possible for us to recollect the various disasters to which a single hero, or goddess, on the head of a ship, is exposed by tempestuous weather, battle, and the unexpected encounter of ships, without trembling for the havoc and indecency that may happen in an assemblage of gods and conc-shells, princesses and satyrs; heroes, blunder-buffes, sea-monsters, little children, globes and thunder-bolts, and all the apparatus necessary to constitute the head of a ship of the first class in our navy.In plate IV. we have sketched four heads, which are calculated for vessels of different sizes and constructions. Fig. 6. exhibits an image of Hercules brandishing his club over the heads of Cerberus, calculated for a ship of the line. Fig. 7. represents Jupiter riding on his eagle, and armed with his thunders, being a suitable head for a capital ship. The eagle displayed by fig. 8. may serve for a frigate; and fig. 9. which expresses an incumbent dragon, is very proper for any small vessel with a projecting beak or prow. These figures have been selected from many others, because, being very rarely used to decorate the head of a ship, it is possible that several of our readers may never before have observed them. The two first, which are usually called image-heads, are bold, warlike, and classical. The eagle in the third is certainly a proper emblem of dignity, force, and velocity: and it is apprehended neither the representation of the latter, nor any other figure in that position, are to be met with amongst our shipping. -
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avant, is also used, in a more enlarged sense, to signify the whole front or fore part of the 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-sails, head-sea, head-way, &c.Thus fig. 10. plate IV. represents one side of the fore-part, or head of a seventy-four gun ship, together with part of the bow, keel, and gunnel. The names of the several pieces, exhibited therein, are as follow:A A fore part of the keel, with a a the two false keels beneath it.A C The stem.a a The cat-head.b b The supporter of the cat-head, sous-barbe.c c The knight-head, or bollard-timber, of which there is one on each side, to secure the inner-end of the bowsprit.d d The hause-holes.e e The navel-hoods, i. e. thick pieces of plank laid upon the bow to strengthen the edges of the hause-holes.f The davit-chock, by which the davit is firmly wedged while employed to fish the anchor.g The bulk-head, which terminates the forecastle on the fore-side, being called the beak-head bulk-head by ship-wrights.H The gun-ports of the lower deck.h The gun-ports of the upper deck and forecastle.I, I, The channels, with their dead-eyes and chain-plates.i The gripe, or fore-foot, which unites the keel with the stem, forming a part of either.k k These dotted lines represent the thickness and descent of the different decks from the fore-part of the ship towards the middle. The lowest of the three dotted lines l expresses the convexity of the beams, the difference between the height of the deck in the middle of its breadth, and at the ship’s side. This is also exhibited more clearly in the midship-frame, where the real curve of the beam is delineated.N. B. These lines must be always parallel to the lines which terminate the gun-ports above and below.m m The timbers of the head part of the bowsprit.X The rails of the head which lie across the timbers.Q Z Fore-part of the main-wale.R X Fore-part of the channel-wale.U C The load water-line.See also the continuation of a ship throughout her whole length, upon a smaller scale, plate I. ELEVATION.Fig. 11. represents a head-view of a ship, with the projection of her principal timbers, and all her planks laid on one side. This figure corresponds to that of the elevation, plate I. and the stern-view, fig. 2. plate X.It is evident that the fore-part of a ship is called its head, from the affinity of motion and position it bears to a fish, and in general to the horizontal situation of all animals whilst swimming.By the HEAD, the state of a ship, which is laden deeper at the fore-end than the after-end.
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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.
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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.
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Man is the head, but woman turns it. -
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He that hath no head, needs no hat. -
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Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.
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The head is the part of the body where the brain is. It is also where the face is. Different things may be worn on the head, for example a headband, a headdress, or a hat.
Some people get pains in their head occasionally, known as headaches. Also, some people have worse pains in their head called migraines.
A "head" in English can also mean a person in charge of something, such as the head of a company.
Also, the word "head" can also mean the front of something. An example of this is the word "Headline", meaning large words on the front page of a newspaper.
Oral sex.
The word head is also slang word for fellatio, when a man's penis is in another persons mouth. This is because the tip of the penis is sometimes called "the head". -
hydraulic
Hydraulic head is a specific measurement of water pressure or total energy per unit weight above a datum.
It is usually measured as a water surface elevation, expressed in units of length, but represents the energy at the entrance (or bottom) of a piezometer. In an aquifer, it can be calculated from the depth to water in a piezometric well (a specialized water well), and given information of the piezometer's elevation and screen depth.
Atmospheric pressure.
Even though it is conventional to use gauge pressure in the calculation of hydraulic head, it is more correct to use total pressure (gauge pressure + atmospheric pressure), since this is truly what drives groundwater flow. Often detailed observations of barometric pressure are not available at each well through time, so this is often disregarded (contributing to large errors at locations where hydraulic gradients are low or the angle between wells is acute.)
