head
head is a 4-letter English word with 72 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A variant of -hood. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- suffix. A variant of -hood.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
- noun. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
- noun. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
- noun. Power; armed force.
- noun. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
- noun. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
- noun. A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
- noun. A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
- noun. The antlers of a deer.
- noun. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
- noun. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- adjective. Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
- transitive verb. To behead; to decapitate.
- transitive verb. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
- intransitive verb. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
- intransitive verb. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
- intransitive verb. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
- noun. oral stimulation of the genitals
"they say he gives good head"
- noun. a single domestic animal
"200 head of cattle"
- noun. a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- noun. a projection out from one end, "a pinhead is the head of a pin"
"the head of the nail"
- noun. (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- noun. the striking part of a tool
"the head of the hammer"
- noun. (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
"call heads or tails!"
- noun. (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- noun. that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- noun. 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"
- noun. the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
"the head of the humerus"
- noun. 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"
- noun. (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- noun. 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"
- noun. the subject matter at issue
"the question of disease merits serious discussion"
"under the head of minor Roman poets"
- noun. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
"the point of the arrow was due north"
- noun. forward movement
"the ship made little headway against the gale"
- noun. a difficult juncture
"a pretty pass"
"matters came to a head yesterday"
- noun. the front of a military formation or procession
"the head of the column advanced boldly"
"they were at the head of the attack"
- noun. the source of water from which a stream arises
"they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
- noun. the part in the front or nearest the viewer
"he was in the forefront"
"he was at the head of the column"
- noun. the top of something
"the head of the stairs"
"the head of the page"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a rounded compact mass
"the head of a comet"
- noun. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- noun. a user of (usually soft) drugs
"the office was full of secret heads"
- noun. a person who is in charge
"the head of the whole operation"
- noun. an individual person
"tickets are $5 per head"
- noun. the educator who has executive authority for a school
"she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
- noun. the pressure exerted by a fluid
"a head of steam"
- noun. a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
"a head of cauliflower"
"a head of lettuce"
- noun. 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"
- noun. the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- verb. remove the head of
"head the fish"
- verb. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- verb. to go or travel towards
"where is she heading"
"We were headed for the mountains"
- verb. travel in front of; go in advance of others
"The procession was headed by John"
- verb. be in charge of
"Who is heading this project?"
- verb. form a head or come or grow to a head
"The wheat headed early this year"
- verb. be in the front of or on top of
"The list was headed by the name of the president"
- verb. be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
"This student heads the class"
- verb. take its rise
"These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"
Synonyms
drumhead, caput, brain, mind, nous, psyche, header, heading, question, point, headway, pass, straits, fountainhead, headspring, forefront, foreland, headland, promontory, chief, principal, capitulum, channelise, channelize
Anagrams
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Common word forms
heads, headed, header, headly, headful, heading, headless
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