Etymology : Middle English hed, from Old English hEafod; akin to Old High German houbit head, Latin caput
Pronunciation : hed
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. uppermost part of the body containing the brain; mind, understanding; leader, person in authority; top; forefront; crisis, climax; devotee, enthusiast (Slang); device in a drive which reads and writes information (Computers). lead, direct; be at the front; go in a certain direction. chief, leading, main, principal. (See skids).
2. someone who earned respect.
3. see also:
cut his head. Next >>.
4. A variant of -hood.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Each one among many; an individual; often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
14. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
15. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
16. Power; armed force.
17. Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
18. 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.
19. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
20. To behead; to decapitate.
21. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
22. 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.
23. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
24. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
25. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early. a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin" a toilet on board a boat or ship the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves 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" the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus" the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" 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" a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet" a user of drugs; "the office was full of secret heads" a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head" the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam" 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" the tip of an abscess remove the head of; "head the fish" to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year" be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president" be the first or leading member of and excel; "This student heads the class" take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas".
26. head heads heading headed Head is used in a large number of expressions which are explained under other words in the dictionary. For example, the expression `off the top of your head' is explained at `top'.
27. Your head is the top part of your body, which has your eyes, mouth, and brain in it. She turned her head away from him.
28. You can use head to refer to your mind and your mental abilities. an exceptional analyst who could do complex maths in his head.
29. The head of a line of people or vehicles is the front of it, or the first person or vehicle in the line. the head of the queue.
30. If someone or something heads a line or procession, they are at the front of it. The parson, heading the procession, had just turned right towards the churchyard.
31. If something heads a list or group, it is at the top of it. Running a business heads the list of ambitions among the 1,000 people interviewed by Good Housekeeping magazine.
32. The head of something is the highest or top part of it. the head of the stairs Every day a different name was placed at the head of the chart. = top.
33. The head of something long and thin is the end which is wider than or a different shape from the rest, and which is often considered to be the most important part. Keep the head of the club the same height throughout the swing.
34. The head of a school is the teacher who is in charge. = head teacher.
35. The head of a company or organization is the person in charge of it and in charge of the people in it. Heads of government from more than 100 countries gather in Geneva tomorrow. the head waiter.
36. If you head a department, company, or organization, you are the person in charge of it. Michael Williams, who heads the department's Office of Civil Rights. the ruling Socialist Party, headed by Dr Franz Vranitzky.
37. The head on a glass of beer is the layer of small bubbles that form on the top of the beer.
38. If you have a bad head, you have a headache. I had a terrible head and was extraordinarily drunk.
39. If you toss a coin and it comes down heads, you can see:
the side of the coin which has a picture of a head on it. `We might toss up for it,' suggested Ted. `If it's heads, then we'll talk.' Heads or tails?.
40. If you are heading for a particular place, you are going towards that place. In American English, you can also say that you are headed for a particular place. He headed for the bus stop It is not clear how many of them will be heading back to Saudi Arabia tomorrow She and her child boarded a plane headed to where her family lived.
41. If something or someone is heading for a particular result, the situation they are in is developing in a way that makes that result very likely. In American English, you can also say that something or someone is headed for a particular result. The latest talks aimed at ending the civil war appear to be heading for deadlock The centuries-old ritual seems headed for extinction.
42. If a piece of writing is headed a particular title, it has that title written at the beginning of it. One chapter is headed, `Beating the Test'.
43. If you head a ball in football, you hit it with your head in order to make it go in a particular direction. He headed the ball across the face of the goal. see also:
heading.
44. You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group. This simple chicken dish costs less than £1 a head.
45. emphasis From head to foot means all over your body. Colin had been put into a bath and been scrubbed from head to foot.
46. If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid. I don't have a head for business.
47. If you get a fact or idea into your head, you suddenly realize or think that it is true and you usually do not change your opinion about it. Once they get an idea into their heads, they never give up.
48. If you say that someone has got something into their head, you mean that they have finally understood or accepted it, and you are usually criticizing them because it has taken them a long time to do this. Managers have at last got it into their heads that they can no longer accept inefficient operations.
49. If alcoholic drink goes to your head, it makes you feel drunk. That wine was strong, it went to your head.
50. disapproval If you say that something such as praise or success goes to someone's head, you are criticizing them because you think that it makes them too proud or confident. Ford is definitely not a man to let a little success go to his head.
51. If you are head over heels or head over heels in love, you are very much in love.
52. If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation. She was able to keep her head and not panic She lost her head and started screaming at me.
53. If you knock something on the head, you stop it. When we stop enjoying ourselves we'll knock it on the head.
54. emphasis Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly. He carried on telling a joke, laughing his head off.
55. disapproval If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous. He's gone completely off his head.
56. If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head, you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way. Their relationship turned the standard notion of marriage on its head.
57. If something such as an idea, joke, or comment goes over someone's head, it is too difficult for them to understand. I admit that a lot of the ideas went way over my head.
58. If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority. He was reprimanded for trying to go over the heads of senior officers.
59. If you say that something unpleasant or embarrassing rears its ugly head or raises its ugly head, you mean that it occurs, often after not occurring for some time. There was a problem which reared its ugly head about a week after she moved back in.
60. If you stand on your head, you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground.
61. If you say that you cannot make head nor tail of something or you cannot make head or tail of it, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand it at all. I couldn't make head nor tail of the damn film.
62. If somebody takes it into their head to do something, especially something strange or foolish, they suddenly decide to do it. He suddenly took it into his head to go out to Australia to stay with his son.
63. If a problem or disagreement comes to a head or is brought to a head, it becomes so bad that something must be done about it. These problems came to a head in September when five of the station's journalists were sacked.
64. If two or more people put their heads together, they talk about a problem they have and try to solve it. So everyone put their heads together and eventually an amicable arrangement was reached.
65. If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business. We are keeping our head above water, but our cash flow position is not too good.
66. If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs. The group's problems have led to speculation that heads will roll. American costume designer for more than 1,000 motion pictures, including All About Eve (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). head rhyme Dunnet Head Head Bessie Head Edith.
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