Look up: head

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   head
   That part of the body at the 'front' end, where the brain, mouth, and most sensory organs are located.
   Found on http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gl
   
   
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   head
   In nematodes: That portion anterior to the base of the stoma or stylet.
   Found on http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary
   
   
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   Head
   (1) A comparatively high promontory with either a CLIFF or steep face. It extends into a large body of water, such as a sea or lake. An unnamed HEAD is usually called a headland. (2) The section of RIP CURRENT which has widened out seaward of the BREAKERS, also called head of rip.
   Found on http://www.csc.noaa.gov/text/glossary.ht
   
   
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   Head
   A dense cluster of sessile, or nearly sessile, flowers on a very short axis or receptacle, as in alsike clover and sunflower.
   Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos
   
   
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   head
   [n] - the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) 2. [n] - the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head 3. [n] - the pressure exerted by a fluid 4. [n] - an individual person 5. [n] - a person who is in charge 6. [n] - (informal) a user of (usually soft) drugs 7. [n] - a rounded compact mass 8. [n] - the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container 9. [n] - the top of something 10. [n] - the front of a military formation or procession 11. [n] - (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent 12. [n] - the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint 13. [n] - the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals 14. [n] - that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves 15. [n] - (usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person`s head 16. [n] - the striking part of a tool 17. [n] - a toilet on board a boat or ship 18. [n] - a projection out from one end 19. [n] - a single domestic animal 20. [v] - be the first or leading member of (a group) 21. [v] - be in the front of or on top of 22. [v] - be in charge of 23. [v] - to go or travel towards
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   Head
   1) In tape recording, the transducer (energy converter) that changes the audio energy from electrical energy to magnetic energy and back; also the devices that apply magnetism to the recording tape for other purposes such as in the erase head.
   2) The part of a device that immediately includes the transducer to change sound or audio signals from one energy form to another.
   Found on http://www.testing1212.co.uk/a.htm
   
   
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   Head
   (Head / head word) The head or head word of a phrase is the word around which the phrase is built, i.e. the main word that determines the core meaning of the whole phrase, e.g. in the noun phrase the old-fashioned door, the head word is door; in the verb phrase, might be hit the head word is hit....
   Found on http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/grammar/main
   
   
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   head
   A part mounted very close to the surface of a disk platter to read or write data.
   Found on http://www.micro2000uk.co.uk/hardware_gl
   
   
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   HEAD
   The part of a tape machine or disk drive that reads and/or writes data to and from the storage media.
   Found on http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music%
   
   
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    Head
    The top part of a triangular sail. OR A toilet in a cruiser boat.
    Found on http://www.go-sail.co.uk/dglossh.asp
    
    
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    Head
    the top corner of a sail
    Found on http://www.dinghysailinguk.co.uk/sailing
    
    
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    head
    the central or most important element in a construction which determines the external distribution of the construction and places certain requirements on the words or constituents it occurs with. For example, the verb saw is head of the sentence The big man saw Mary and of the VP saw Mary. Nouns are heads of NPs, prepositions are heads of PPs, adjectives of APs, etc. In lexicography, head is another term for headword .
    Found on http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/
    
    
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    Head
    The margin at the top of a page.
    Found on http://www.britishprint.com/tw/glossary.
    
    
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    Head
    A flower spike or raceme shortened to form a compact, flattened to globose cluster.
    Found on http://www.naturedirect2u.com/Medicinal%
    
    
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    head
    a) any piece (s) of timber from which the head of a barrel, cask, keg, etc. is cut; b) also such pieces when cut and assembled to form the head Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • any device used to obtain information about environment; Category: News-systems and communications • 1)any device used to obtain information (especially quant...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
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    Head
    top edge of a slate. Slate Terminology Diagam
    Found on http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glo
    
    
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    Head
    Head (hĕd) noun [ Middle English hed , heved , heaved , Anglo-Saxon heáfod ; akin to Dutch hoofd , Old High German houbit , German haupt , Icelandic höfuð , Swedish hufvud , Danish hoved , Goth. haubiþ . The word does not correspond regularly to Latin caput head (cf. English Chief , Cad ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/21
    
    
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    Head
    Head (hĕd) adjective Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/21
    
    
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    Head
    Head (hĕd) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Headed ; present participle & verbal noun Heading .] 1. 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. Dryden. 2. To form a head to; to fit or f ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/21
    
    
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    Head
    Head intransitive verb 1. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. « A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.» Adair. 2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head ? 3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/21
    
    
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    head
    1. 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. ... 2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. ... 3. To behead; to decapitate. ... 4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. ... 5. To go in front of; to get in ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
    
    
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    head
    caput noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    head
    noun a single domestic animal; `200 head of cattle`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    head
    noun a projection out from one end; `the head of the nail`, `a pinhead is the head of a pin`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    head
    noun the front of a military formation or procession; `the head of the column advanced boldly`; `they were at the head of the attack`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?