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ALL meanings of headed

head·ed
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  • adjective headed first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official. 1
  • adjective headed of, relating to, or for the head (often used in combination): head covering; headgear; headpiece. 1
  • adjective headed situated at the top, front, or head of anything (often used in combination): headline; headboard. 1
  • adjective headed moving or coming from a direction in front of the head or prow of a vessel: head sea; head tide; head current. 1
  • adjective headed Slang. of or relating to drugs, drug paraphernalia, or drug users. 1
  • noun headed the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. 1
  • noun headed the corresponding part of the body in other animals. 1
  • noun headed the head considered as the center of the intellect, as of thought, memory, understanding, or emotional control; mind; brain: She has a good head for mathematics. Keep a cool head in an emergency. 1
  • noun headed the position or place of leadership, greatest authority, or honor. 1
  • noun headed a person to whom others are subordinate, as the director of an institution or the manager of a department; leader or chief. 1
  • noun headed a person considered with reference to his or her mind, disposition, attributes, status, etc.: wise heads; crowned heads. 1
  • noun headed that part of anything that forms or is regarded as forming the top, summit, or upper end: head of a pin; head of a page. 1
  • noun headed the foremost part or front end of anything or a forward projecting part: head of a procession. 1
  • noun headed the part of a weapon, tool, etc., used for striking: the head of a hammer. 1
  • noun headed a person or animal considered merely as one of a number, herd, or group: ten head of cattle; a dinner at $20 a head. 1
  • noun headed a culminating point, usually of a critical nature; crisis or climax: to bring matters to a head. 1
  • noun headed the hair covering the head: to wash one's head. 1
  • noun headed froth or foam at the top of a liquid: the head on beer. 1
  • noun headed Botany. any dense flower cluster or inflorescence. any other compact part of a plant, usually at the top of the stem, as that composed of leaves in the cabbage or lettuce, of leafstalks in the celery, or of flower buds in the cauliflower. 1
  • noun headed the maturated part of an abscess, boil, etc. 1
  • noun headed a projecting point of a coast, especially when high, as a cape, headland, or promontory. 1
  • noun headed the obverse of a coin, as bearing a head or other principal figure (opposed to tail). 1
  • noun headed one of the chief parts or points of a written or oral discourse; a main division of a subject, theme, or topic. 1
  • noun headed something resembling a head in form or a representation of a head, as a piece of sculpture. 1
  • noun headed the source of a river or stream. 1
  • noun headed Slang. a habitual user of a drug, especially LSD or marijuana (often used in combination): feds versus the heads; an acid-head; a pothead. a fan or devotee (usually used in combination): a punk-rock head; a chili head. 1
  • noun headed heads, Distilling. alcohol produced during the initial fermentation. Compare tail1 (def 6d). 1
  • abbreviation HEADED headline. 1
  • noun headed a toilet or lavatory, especially on a boat or ship. 1
  • noun headed Nautical. the forepart of a vessel; bow. the upper edge of a quadrilateral sail. the upper corner of a jib-headed sail. that part of the upper end of one spar of a mast that is overlapped by a spar above; a doubling at the upper end of a spar. that part of the upper end of a mast between the highest standing rigging and the truck. crown (def 29). 1
  • noun headed Grammar. the member of an endocentric construction that belongs to the same form class and may play the same grammatical role as the construction itself. the member upon which another depends and to which it is subordinate. In former presidents, presidents is head and former is modifier. 1
  • noun headed the stretched membrane covering the end of a drum or similar musical instrument. 1
  • noun headed Mining. a level or road driven into solid coal for proving or working a mine. 1
  • noun headed Machinery. any of various devices on machine tools for holding, moving, indexing, or changing tools or work, as the headstock or turret of a lathe. 1
  • noun headed Railroads. railhead (def 3). 1
  • noun headed (loosely) the pressure exerted by confined fluid: a head of steam. 1
  • noun headed Also called pressure head. Hydraulics. the vertical distance between two points in a liquid, as water, or some other fluid. the pressure differential resulting from this separation, expressed in terms of the vertical distance between the points. the pressure of a fluid expressed in terms of the height of a column of liquid yielding an equivalent pressure. 1
  • noun headed Also called magnetic head. Electronics. the part or parts of a tape recorder that record, play back, or erase magnetic signals on magnetic tape. Compare erasing head, playback head, recording head. 1
  • noun headed Computers. read/write head. 1
  • noun headed Photography. a mounting for a camera, as on a tripod. the part of an enlarger that contains the light source, negative carrier, lensboard, and lens. 1
  • noun headed Slang: Vulgar. fellatio or cunnilingus. 1
  • noun headed Archaic. power, strength, or force progressively gathered or gradually attained. 1
  • noun headed heads up! Informal. be careful! watch out for danger! 1
  • verb with object headed to go at the head of or in front of; lead; precede: to head a list. 1
  • verb with object headed to outdo or excel; take the lead in or over: to head a race; to head one's competitors in a field. 1
  • verb with object headed to be the head or chief of (sometimes followed by up): to head a school; to head up a department. 1
  • verb with object headed to direct the course of; turn the head or front of in a specified direction: I'll head the boat for the shore. Head me in the right direction and I'll walk to the store. 1
  • verb with object headed to go around the head of (a stream). 1
  • verb with object headed to furnish or fit with a head. 1
  • verb with object headed to take the head off; decapitate; behead. 1
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