Head

Word HEAD
Character 4
Hyphenation head
Pronunciations /hɛd/

Definitions and meanings of "Head"

What do we mean by head?

The uppermost or forwardmost part of the body of a vertebrate, containing the brain and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and jaws. noun

The analogous part of an invertebrate organism. noun

The length or height of such a part. noun

The seat of the faculty of reason; intelligence, intellect, or mind. noun

Mental ability or aptitude. noun

Freedom of choice or action. noun

A habitual drug user. Often used in combination. noun

An enthusiast. Often used in combination. noun

A person considered foolish or contemptible. Often used in combination. noun

A portrait or representation of a person's head. noun

The side of a coin having the principal design, often the profile of a political leader's head. noun

A headache. noun

An individual; a person. noun

A single animal. noun

A person who leads, rules, or is in charge; a leader, chief, or director. noun

A headmaster or headmistress. noun

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

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(social, metonymy) A leader or expert.

A significant or important part.

Headway; progress.

Topic; subject.

Denouement; crisis.

(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

The glans penis.

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Power; armed force.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Head

The word "head" in example sentences

I say get quiet for a moment, get out of your head not that you're super in your head but for a *decision* like this, I often don't listen to my *head* and listen to what your gut says about what kind of environment would be the best for Wonderbaby. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beltain eventually stuck his head in my glass and started to drink my milk, so that was the end of that one. ** shakes head** After AMC, I snazzed up and headed to the Metro. ❋ Qdiosa (2006)

And, if I say, The boy's hat is _on_ his head, you perceive that _on_ shows the relation between _hat_ and _head_. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

Besides all that we once committed ourselves by writing on the subject, we have done many other cruel things; such as dividing insects, (whether at the union of the head with corselet, or of the corselet with the abdomen,) and we have found that the segments to which the members were articulated carried on their functions _without the head_. ❋ Various (N/A)

This head, obtained by subtracting friction and other losses from the surveyed head, is called the _effective head_, and determines the amount of power delivered at the nozzle. ❋ Frederick Irving Anderson (1912)

We now got ready to go off, putting the boat’s head out; English Ben and I, who were the largest, standing on each side of the bows, to keep her “head on” to the sea, two more shipping and manning the two after oars, and the captain taking the steering oar. ❋ Unknown (1909)

And dreamed of nights when you should sleep with your head upon my breast -- [_Yaouma bends her head_] And now you seek a grave in the slime of the river. ❋ Eug��ne Brieux (1895)

{77} Here is the head of a Frenchman [_shews the head_], all levity and lightness, singing and capering from morning till night, as if he looked upon life to be but a long dance, and liberty and law but a jig. ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

Here is the head of another Fashionable Foreigner [_shews the head_], a very simple machine; for he goes upon one spring, self-interest. ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

This was in fashion two or three years past; this is the fashion of last year [_takes a head up_]; and this the morning headdress [_takes the head_] of this present ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

Here's a head full charged for _fun_ [_takes the head_], a comical half-foolish face, what a great many upon the stage can put on, and what ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

{79} Here is the head of a British Tar [_shews the head_]; and, while ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

Beautiful indeed it is, but not like the beauty of the human face, that may be discovered by all who have eyes to look upon it; the heart as well as the head must engage, or as Coleridge says, _the heart in the head_. ❋ George L. Prentiss (1859)

The bushel or measure of corn on the Egyptian Jupiter's head is a proof of it, and the name _Serapis_, a further corroboration: the dream which he explained for Pharaoh relative to the event that fixed his favour in that country, was expressed by _cattle_; and _for apis_, the _ox's head_, was perfectly applicable to him for every reason. ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)

Recently, I've been working on an idea for a simple letter that could help get more support from your head teacher - something from you that any head* would love to see on their desk when half-term is over. ❋ Ray Fleming (2010)

[557] In _Titus Andronicus_, v. 1, we have the expression "to fight at head" ( "As true a dog as ever fought _at head_"). ❋ Christopher Marlowe (1578)

Part of it's just a bunch of chemicals fucking with my head, part of it is the simple and painful fact that I CANNOT work yet, part of it is the time and effort I have to put into things just to get health care - TWO WEEKS of trying to get a live human being who actually listens to me, hell, who at least speaks english ... * shakes her head* ❋ Jaxraven (2003)

* lowers his head, face dropping as surely as his head* ❋ Jaxraven (2001)

This is the head [_takes the head_] of a Female Moderator, or President of the Ladies 'Debating Society: she can prove to a demonstration that man is an usurper of dignities and preferments, and that her sex has a just right to participation of both with him: she would have physicians in petticoats, and lawyers with high heads and French curls; then she would have _young_ women of spirit to command our fleets and armies, and ❋ Geo. Alex. Stevens (1893)

"suppose it does fall on my head, I don't know that _a mitre falling on my head_ would hurt it." ❋ Mark Lemon (1839)

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