head

Verb

• remove the head of
  • head the fish
    

• 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
    

• take its rise
  • These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas
    

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
  • This student heads the class
    

• travel in front of; go in advance of others
  • The procession was headed by John
    

• be in charge of
  • Who is heading this project?
    

• to go or travel towards
  • where is she heading
    
  • We were headed for the mountains
    

Noun

• oral stimulation of the genitals
  • they say he gives good head
    

• a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

• a projection out from one end
  • the head of the nail, a pinhead is the head of a pin
    

• (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

• the striking part of a tool
  • the head of the hammer
    

• (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
  • call heads or tails!
    

• (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

• that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

• the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
  • the head of the humerus
    

• a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
  • the heading seemed to have little to do with the text
    

• the subject matter at issue
  • the question of disease merits serious discussion
    
  • under the head of minor Roman poets
    

• a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
  • the point of the arrow was due north
    

• forward movement
  • the ship made little headway against the gale
    

• a difficult juncture
  • a pretty pass
    
  • matters came to a head yesterday
    

• the part in the front or nearest the viewer
  • he was in the forefront
    
  • he was at the head of the column
    

• 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 natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

• a user of (usually soft) drugs
  • the office was full of secret heads
    

• an individual person
  • tickets are $5 per head
    

• the educator who has executive authority for a school
  • she sent unruly pupils to see the principal
    

• a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
  • a head of cauliflower
    
  • a head of lettuce
    

• 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 (where the pus accumulates)

• (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

• the source of water from which a stream arises
  • they tracked him back toward the head of the stream
    

• the top of something
  • the head of the stairs
    
  • the head of the page
    
  • the head of the list
    

• the pressure exerted by a fluid
  • a head of steam
    

• the front of a military formation or procession
  • the head of the column advanced boldly
    
  • they were at the head of the attack
    

• a person who is in charge
  • the head of the whole operation
    

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
  • his mind wandered
    
  • I couldn't get his words out of my head
    

• a single domestic animal
  • 200 head of cattle
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  head up , lead , oral sex , drumhead , read/write head , heading , header , question , point , headway , pass , straits , forefront , promontory , headland , foreland , principal , school principal , head teacher , capitulum , head word , fountainhead , headspring , chief , top dog , mind , brain , psyche , no
• Antonyms: 
  tail , foot , rear