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head

/hɛd/
/hɛd/

noun
verb
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. (Example: Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.)
The topmost, foremost, or leading part. (Example: What does it say at the head of the page?)
(social, metonymy) A leader or expert.
A significant or important part.
Headway; progress. (Example: We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.)
Topic; subject. (Example: We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.)
Denouement; crisis. (Example: These isses are going to come to a head today.)
(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. (Example: She gave great head.)
The glans penis.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
Power; armed force.

adjective
To be in command of. (See also head up.) (Example: Who heads the board of trustees?)
To come at the beginning of; to commence. (Example: A group of clowns headed the procession.)
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To move in a specified direction. (Example: How does the ship head?)
To remove the head from a fish. (Example: The salmon are first headed and then scaled.)
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To form a head. (Example: This kind of cabbage heads early.)
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head. (Example: to head a nail)
To cut off the top of; to lop off. (Example: to head trees)
To behead; to decapitate.
To go in front of. (Example: to head a drove of cattle)
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose. (Example: The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.)
(by extension) To check or restrain.
To set on the head. (Example: to head a cask)
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

head

/hɛd/
/hɛd/

adjective
Foremost in rank or importance. (Example: the head cook)
Placed at the top or the front.
Coming from in front. (Example: head sea)
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