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▸ noun: (people) To do with heads.
▸ noun: Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
▸ noun: (figurative, metonymically) Mind; one's own thoughts.
▸ noun: A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
▸ noun: A headdress; a covering for the head.
▸ noun: (figurative, metonymically) An individual person.
▸ noun: (animals) To do with heads.
▸ noun: (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
▸ noun: The population of game.
▸ noun: The antlers of a deer.
▸ noun: (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
▸ noun: The end of a table.
▸ noun: The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
▸ noun: (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
▸ noun: (countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
▸ noun: The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
▸ noun: The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
▸ noun: The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
▸ noun: (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
▸ noun: (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
▸ noun: A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
▸ noun: (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
▸ noun: (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
▸ noun: (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
▸ noun: (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
▸ noun: (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
▸ noun: (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
▸ noun: (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
▸ noun: (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
▸ noun: (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
▸ noun: (music) The headstock of a guitar.
▸ noun: (nautical) A leading component.
▸ noun: The top edge of a sail.
▸ noun: The bow of a vessel.
▸ noun: (British) A headland.
▸ noun: (social, countable, metonymically) A leader or expert.
▸ noun: The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
▸ noun: (metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.
▸ noun: (metonymically, chiefly British, Ireland) A headteacher.
▸ noun: (music, slang, figurative, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
▸ noun: A significant or important part.
▸ noun: A beginning or end, a protuberance.
▸ noun: The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
▸ noun: A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
▸ noun: An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
▸ noun: The leafy top part of a tree.
▸ noun: (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
▸ noun: (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
▸ noun: (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
▸ noun: A component.
▸ noun: (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
▸ noun: (linguistics) 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.
▸ noun: Headway; progress.
▸ noun: Topic; subject.
▸ noun: (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
▸ noun: (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
▸ noun: (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure 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.
▸ noun: More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
▸ noun: (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
▸ noun: (slang) The glans penis.
▸ noun: (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Power; armed force.
▸ adjective: Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
▸ verb: (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
▸ verb: (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To form a head.
▸ verb: (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
▸ verb: To go in front of.
▸ verb: To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
▸ verb: (by extension) To check or restrain.
▸ verb: To set on the head.
▸ adjective: Foremost in rank or importance.
▸ adjective: Placed at the top or the front.
▸ adjective: Coming from in front.
▸ noun: A surname from Middle English, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
▸ noun: (journalism) Short for headline. [(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.]
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