head
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Is head a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite."; "Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings."Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, boncecountable
2. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "The company is looking for people with good heads for business."; "He has no head for heights."; "It's all about having a good head on your shoulders."Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, bonce, mindcountableuncountable
3. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "This song keeps going through my head."; "“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”"Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, boncecountablefigurativelymetonymicallyuncountable
4. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink."; ""Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've a head on me this morning.""Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, boncecountableuncountable
5. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "a laced head"; "a head of hair"Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, boncecountableuncountable
6. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.Examples: "Admission is three dollars a head."; "[…] but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. […] And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame."Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, boncecountablefigurativelymetonymicallyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)Examples: "Who heads the board of trustees?"; "to head an army, an expedition, or a riot"transitive
2. (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.Examples: "A group of clowns headed the procession."; "The most important items headed the list."; "When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line."transitive
3. (transitive) To strike with the headExamples: "to head the ball"transitive
4. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.Examples: "We are going to head up North for our holiday."; "We will head off tomorrow."; "Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago."Synonyms: seek, bearintransitive
5. (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).Examples: "Near-synonyms: behead, dehead"; "The salmon are first headed and then scaled."transitive
6. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.Examples: "a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,"; "The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]"intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary