head
(Q23640) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth{{,}} and main sense organs.
(people) {{n-g|To do with heads.}}
# Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
# (metonymy) Mind; one's own thoughts.
# A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
# A headdress; a covering for the head.
# (metonymy) An individual person.
(animals) {{n-g|To do with heads.}}
# (measure for one animal) (plural head) A single animal; {{n-g|measure word for livestock and game}}.
# The population of game.
# The antlers of a deer.
(topmost or foremost part) 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.
# (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
# The end of a hammer, axe, golf club{{,}} or similar implement used for striking other objects.
# The end of a nail, screw, bolt{{,}} or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
# The sharp end of an arrow, spear{{,}} or pointer.
# (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
# (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
# A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
# (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
# (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
# (machining) A milling head, a part of a (milling machine) that houses the (spindle).
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
(engineering) (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
(coopering) (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
(geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
(journalism) (headline)
(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
(music) The headstock of a guitar.
(nautical) A leading component.
# The top edge of a sail.
# The bow of a vessel.
(British) A headland.
A title or heading in a book or other document.
The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
(metonymy) A headteacher.
(metonymy) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
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.
# A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
# (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
# (toilet of a ship) (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
# (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
A component.
# (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
# (core of phrase, in linguistics) (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.
Headway; progress.
Topic; subject.
(in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
(pressure and energy in fluid dynamics) (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
(slang) The glans penis.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
(obsolete) Power; armed force.
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
(be in command) To be in command of. (See also (head up).)
To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
To strike with the head
To move in a specified direction.
To remove the head from (a fish).
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To form a head.
(form a head on (hardware)) (of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
To cut off the top of; to lop off.
(obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
(by extension) To check or restrain.
To set on the head.
Foremost in rank or importance.