head

Substantiv

1. 1

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

   Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

   Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

2. 2

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

   The company is looking for people with good heads for business.

   He has no head for heights.

   It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.

3. 3

   übertragenThe part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. Mind; one's own thoughts.

   This song keeps going through my head.

   “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

4. 4

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

   He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.

   "Now you have done it, Spuds," said Cripps. "You'll have an awful head on you tomorrow."

   "Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've a head on me this morning."

5. 5

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A headdress; a covering for the head.

   a laced head

   a head of hair

6. 6

   übertragenThe part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. An individual person.

   Admission is three dollars a head.

   […] but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. […] And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame.

7. 7

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.

   200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses

8. 8

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. The population of game.

   We have a heavy head of deer this year.

9. 9

   The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. To do with heads. The antlers of a deer.

10. 10

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

    What does it say at the head of the page?

    Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

11. 11

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of a table. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

    During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.

12. 12

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of a table. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

13. 13

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.

14. 14

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.

    Hit the nail on the head!

15. 15

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. 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.

16. 16

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.

17. 17

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.

    The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.

18. 18

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.

19. 19

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

    Tap the head of the drum for this roll.

20. 20

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

    The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.

21. 21

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

22. 22

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

23. 23

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The principal operative part of a machine, tool or fastener. A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.

24. 24

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

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

    He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.

25. 25

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

26. 26

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end cap of a cask or other barrel.

27. 27

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The uppermost part of a valley.

    A deep bed of this red sandstone occurs at the head of the Yen Shui valley, a few miles south of Ching-pien [translating 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān)].

28. 28

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

29. 29

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. Synonym of tidal bore.

30. 30

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of an abscess where pus collects.

31. 31

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The headstock of a guitar.

32. 32

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A leading component. The top edge of a sail.

33. 33

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A leading component. The bow of a vessel.

34. 34

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A headland.

35. 35

    The topmost, foremost, or leading part. A title or heading in a book or other document.

    In this repositary, the phenomena of nature are ranged under three principal heads.

36. 36

    A leader or expert.

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

    Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.

    He's (the) head of a project here.

    “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]”

37. 37

    A leader or expert. The place of honor or 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.

38. 38

    A leader or expert. A headteacher.

    I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.

39. 39

    übertragenA leader or expert. A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

    Only true heads know this.

40. 40

    SlangA leader or expert. An old head.

41. 41

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

    The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.

42. 42

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

    Give me a head of lettuce.

43. 43

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.

44. 44

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. The leafy top part of a tree.

45. 45

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

46. 46

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. The toilet of a ship.

    I've got to go to the head.

47. 47

    A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

    Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house

48. 48

    A significant or important part. A component. The principal melody or theme of a piece.

49. 49

    A significant or important part. A component. 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.

    Holonym: phrase

50. 50

    A significant or important part. A component. The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.

51. 51

    Headway; progress.

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

52. 52

    Topic; subject.

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

53. 53

    Denouement; crisis.

    These issues are going to come to a head today.

    Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne, / The time ſhall not be many houres of age, / More then it is, ere foule ſinne, gathering head, / Shall breake into corruption […]

    The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.

54. 54

    Pressure and energy. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

    Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

    How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?

55. 55

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

56. 56

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

57. 57

    SlangFellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

    She gave great head.

    Danny got head last night.

58. 58

    SlangThe glans penis.

59. 59

    SlangA 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.

    The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."

    The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.

60. 60

    veraltetPower; armed force.

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

61. 61

    Variante von headlineThe topmost, foremost, or leading part. Ellipsis of 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.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Verb

1. 1

   To be in command of. (See also head up.)

   Who heads the board of trustees?

   to head an army, an expedition, or a riot

2. 2

   To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.

   A group of clowns headed the procession.

   The most important items headed the list.

   When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.

   The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and are headed with a date.

3. 3

   To strike with the head

   to head the ball

4. 4

   To move in a specified direction.

   We are going to head up North for our holiday.

   We will head off tomorrow.

   Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago.

   Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.

5. 5

   To remove the head from (a fish).

   Near-synonyms: behead, dehead

   The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

6. 6

   To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

   a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,

   The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]

7. 7

   To form a head.

   This kind of cabbage heads early.

   To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.

8. 8

   To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.

   to head a nail

9. 9

   To cut off the top of; to lop off.

   to head trees

10. 10

    veraltetTo behead; to decapitate.

    I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.

    If you head, and hang all that offend that way but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a Commission for more heads

11. 11

    To go in front of.

    to head a drove of cattle

    to head a person

12. 12

    To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

    The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

13. 13

    To check or restrain.

14. 14

    To set on the head.

    to head a cask

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Foremost in rank or importance.

   the head cook

   At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

2. 2

   Placed at the top or the front.

3. 3

   Coming from in front.

   head sea

   head wind

Formen

Plural

heads

Präteritum

headed

Partizip II

headed

Partizip I

heading

3. Person Singular

heads