FromMiddle English hed heed heved heaved Old English hēafd-, hēafod ( “ head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *haubud Proto-Germanic *haubudą ( “ head ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *káput hēafd- , the expected Modern English outcome forhēafod would be*heaved (similar to the Middle English word).Doublet ofcape capo caput chef chief , and Howth
Cognate withScots heid hede hevid heved ( “ head ” ) ,Old English hafola ( “ head ” ) ,North Frisian hood ( “ head ” ) ,Dutch hoofd ( “ head ” ) ,German Haupt ( “ head ” ) ,Swedish huvud ( “ head ” ) ,Danish hoved ( “ head ” ) ,Icelandic höfuð ( “ head ” ) ,Latin caput ( “ head ” ) ,Sanskrit कपाल ( kapāla ,“ skull ” ) ,Hindi कपाल ( kapāl ,“ skull ” ) .
head (countable anduncountable plural heads or head
( countable ) body of an animal or human which contains thebrain ,mouth , and mainsense organs .Synonyms: caput pate ( slang ) noggin loaf nut noodle ( UK slang ) bonce see also Thesaurus:head Be careful when you pet that dog on thehead ; it may bite.
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC page175 :Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck hishead 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.
( people ) To do with heads. Mental oremotional aptitude orskill .Synonym: mind The company is looking for people with goodheads for business.
He has nohead for heights.
It's all about having a goodhead on your shoulders.
( figurative , metonymically ) Mind ; one's ownthoughts .This song keeps going through myhead .
1935 George Goodchild , chapter 1, inDeath on the Centre Court :“Anthea hasn't a notion in herhead but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[ …]
Aheadache ; especially one resulting fromintoxication .1888 Thrown Away ”, inPlain Tales from the Hills →OCLC page15 :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.
1925 July –1926 MayA[rthur] Conan Doyle , “(please specify the chapter number) ”, inThe Land of Mist Project Gutenberg Australia , published April 2019:"Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've ahead on me this morning."
Aheaddress ; a covering for the head.a lacedhead
ahead of hair
( figurative , metonymically ) person .Admission is three dollars ahead .
1749 Henry Fielding , chapter VII, inThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling A[ ndrew] Millar , [ … ] →OCLC pages196–197 :[ …] [ …] Head may be much the ſame.
( animals ) To do with heads. ( pluralhead ) animal ;measure word forlivestock andgame 200head of cattle and 50head of horses
The population ofgame .We have a heavyhead of deer this year.
Theantlers of adeer . ( countable ) topmost ,foremost , orleading part.Antonyms: base bottom underside foot tail What does it say at thehead of the page?
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter X, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC page243 :Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivoryheads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
The end of atable .The end of arectangular table furthest from theentrance ; traditionally considered aseat ofhonor .During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at thehead of the table.
( billiards ) pool table opposite the end where the balls have beenracked . ( countable ) principal operative part of a machine or tool.The end of ahammer ,axe ,golf club , or similarimplement used for striking other objects. The end of anail ,screw ,bolt , or similarfastener which is opposite thepoint ; usuallyblunt and relativelywide .Antonyms: point tip Hit the nail on thehead !
Thesharp end of anarrow ,spear , orpointer .Thehead of the compass needle is pointing due north.
( lacrosse ) lacrosse stick that holds theball .( music ) drum head , themembrane which is hit to producesound .Tap thehead of the drum for this roll.
Amachine element which reads or writeselectromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.Theheads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
( computing ) disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.( automotive ) cylinder head , a platform above thecylinders in aninternal combustion engine , containing thevalves andspark plugs .( machining ) milling machine spindle ( uncountable , countable ) foam that forms on top ofbeer or othercarbonated beverages .Pour me a fresh beer; this one has nohead .
He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too muchhead .
( engineering ) pressure vessel .( coopering ) cask or otherbarrel .Synonym: barrelhead ( geology ) valley .( British , geology ) geological succession .( journalism ) Short forheadline .1968 Scholastic Journalism , page166 :The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story.[ …] head should give the same impression as the body of the story.
( medicine ) abscess wherepus collects.( music ) headstock of aguitar .( nautical ) Thetop edge of asail . Thebow of a vessel. ( British ) headland .Atitle orheading in abook or otherdocument . ( social, countable , metonymically ) leader orexpert .Synonyms: boss chief leader Antonym: subordinate I'd like to speak to thehead of the department.
Police arrested thehead of the gang in a raid last night.
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC “I don't know how you and the ‘head ,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[ …]
Theplace ofhonor orcommand ; the mostimportant orforemost position; thefront .1708 Joseph Addison ,The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd [2] 33 :We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops inEurope , with the Duke ofMarlborough at theHead of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.
( UK , Ireland , metonymically ) headteacher .Synonyms: headmaster headmistress ( US ) principal 1992 June 24,Edwina Currie ,Diary :At 4pm, the phonewent . It wasThe Sun : 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had beenpulled up for talking. / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat '. He heard andflipped —a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to theHead and Deb wascarpeted . I was called into thehead' s office to discuss my behaviour.
( music , slang , figurative , metonymically ) hip hop .Only trueheads know this.
A significant or important part.A beginning or end, a protuberance.Thesource of ariver ; the end of alake where a river flows into it.The expedition followed the river all the way to thehead .
A clump ofseeds ,leaves orflowers ; acapitulum .Give me ahead of lettuce.
2013 American Scientist [3] 101 , number 3, archived fromthe original on14 August 2013 :Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[ …] [ …] heads long after they are ripe.
Anear ofwheat ,barley , or other smallcereal . The leafy top part of a tree. ( anatomy ) joint .( nautical ) toilet of aship .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:toilet ,Thesaurus:bathroom I've got to go to thehead .
( in theplural ) 1875 ,Edward H. Knight , Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, vol. II,page 1086 Heads. (Roofing. ) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house A component.( jazz ) melody ortheme of a piece.( linguistics ) morpheme that determines the category of acompound or the word that determines thesyntactic type of thephrase of which it is a member.Holonym: phrase 2022 Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds ,A Student's Introduction to English Grammar , 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xvi:Linguists will see that we reject some assumptions quite widely held in twentieth-century generative linguistics. The differences are sharp and explicit enough that they should provide grounds for discussion without causing confusion. For example, we do not believe subordinators (‘complementizers’) or coordinators (‘conjunctions’) areheads , and we treatevery day as a noun phrase headed byday rather than a determinative phrase headed byevery .[ …]
Headway ;progress .We are having a difficult time makinghead against this wind.
Topic;subject .We will consider performance issues under thehead of future improvements.
( only in thesingular ) Denouement ;crisis .These issues are going to come to ahead today.
1595 William Shakespeare , “The life and death of King Richard the Second ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act V, scene i] ,page41 :Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mountingBullingbrooke aſcends my Throne, / The time ſhall not be many houres of age, / More then it is, ere foule ſinne, gatheringhead, / Shall breake into corruption[ …]
1712 October 18, anonymous letter inThe Spectator Joseph Addison , no. 513, collected inThe Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq , Birmingham:John Baskerville , published 1761, volume IV,page 10 :The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch anhead , that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf. ( fluid dynamics ) ( uncountable , countable ) fluid pressure , often quantified aspressure head .Hyponyms: head of steam hydraulic head Let the engine build up a goodhead of steam.
How muchhead do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam? The difference inelevation between two points in acolumn of fluid, and the resultingpressure of the fluid at the lower point. More generally,energy in a mass of fluid divided by itsweight . ( slang , vulgar , uncountable ) Fellatio orcunnilingus ;oral sex .Synonyms: blowjob see also Thesaurus:oral sex She gave greathead .
( slang ) glans penis .( slang , countable ) habitual user ofillicit drugs .1936 Over The Wall , Dutton:Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronalheads .
1968 Journal of Health and Social Behavior , volume 9, number 2, pages156–64 :The term, "head ," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."
2004 Martin Torgoff , “Next Stop is Vietnam”, inCan’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000 Simon & Schuster ,→ISBN page177 :The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and theheads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.
( obsolete ) 1591 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The First Part of Henry the Sixt ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene iv] ,page100 :My lord, my lord, the French have gatheredhead :
The humanhead
A flowerhead
Head of a comet
Head of the line
Arrow and spearheads
Head of a hammer
Head of a metal spike
Head of the hip bone
Head of a ship
Head of a sail
Head of a pressurized cylinder
Head of a two-stroke engine
Hydraulichead between two points
A read-writehead
Head of a guitar
Head of a drum
Terms derived fromhead (noun)
acidhead addlehead ahead air-head airhead angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin angels dancing on the head of a pin arrow-head axe head bagel head bald head balloon head bang one's head against a brick wall bang some heads together barrel head barrel-head bash someone's head beach-head beachhead beach head Beachy Head beak-head beat one's head against a stone wall bed head bed's head beetlehead behead besom-head big-head big head bighead bite someone's head off bitt-heads blackhead blanket head blockhead block-head block head bobble-head doll syndrome bonehead bone head boss head Braehead Bray Head bread-head bridgehead bring to a head bubble-head bubblehead bucket-head bucket head bullet-head bullhead bullheaded bum head bury one's head in the sand butthead butt heads by a head cabbage-head cabbage head case head cash on the barrel head cash on the barrel-head cat-head cattlehead chiphead chowder-head chowder head chucklehead Circular Head cittern-head clearheaded coconut head coke head cokehead come head come to a head concrete-head Cone-head cooler heads must prevail cooler heads prevail cooler heads will prevail cool head coolheaded cool heads must prevail cool heads prevail cool heads will prevail crackhead crack head crappit-head crosshead cubbridge-head cylinder head cylinder-head-sector deadhead death's head deaths-head death's-head death's-head hawkmoth death's head moth Diamond Head diaper-head dick-head dickhead dole head don't worry your pretty little head doodie head dopehead do someone's head in doughhead dragon's head dropped head syndrome drowsihead drumhead drum-head court dunderhead Dunnet Head eat one's head off egghead eggheaded E-head erase head exploding head syndrome Fair Head fathead featherhead feeder head feed head felling head femur head figure-head fish head fish-head fixed head coupé flip on its head flower head forehead Forest Head fountainhead from head to toe fucked in the head funny in the head fused head Gable Head game-head Garelochhead Garsdale Head gear head geek someone's head up get into someone's head get one's head around get one's head out of one's ass get one's head straight get one's head together get through one's head gilt-head gilt-head bream give head give one's head a shake give someone his head give someone his head on a plate give someone his head on a platter give your head a wobble go and boil your head good head on one's shoulders go over someone's head go soak your head go to someone's head granola-head half a head hand over head hand someone his head hand someone his head on a plate hand someone his head on a platter hang one's head hang over someone's head hardheaded hard head hardhead harm a hair on someone's head hashhead hat head have a head for have a head on one's shoulders have a thick head have eyes in the back of one's head have one's head read have one's head screwed on have one's head screwed on right have one's head screwed on straight have one's head screwed on the right way have one's head up one's ass have someone's blood on one's head have someone's head -head headache head-ache headage head and ears head and shoulders head band headbang head bang headbanger head beetler head binding head blight headboard head boat head bobble head-bolt head bolt head bolt heater head-bolt heater head boy head-butt head butt headbutt head butter head-butter headcarry head-case headcase head case head cheese head chef headchopper head chute head coach headcode head coil head cold head collar head cook and bottle washer head cook and bottle-washer headcount head count head counter head cover head covering head crash head doctor head down, bum up head dress head-dress headdress head-emptier header head fake head-final head first headfirst head-first headfooter headforemost headframe head-game head game head gasket headgear head girl head groom head group head honcho head-hop head house head-hunter headhunter head hunter headhunt head-hunt headily headiness heading head-initial head in the clouds head-in-the-sand head in the sand head joint head-kerchief head kidney head lad headlamp headland head landlord head lease headless headlight head-like head like a sieve headline head line headliner head linesman headlock headlong head loss head louse headly head man headman headmaster headmate headmistress head money head movement head-note head note head office head of government head of hair head of household head of navigation head of state head of steam head-on head on head-on collision head on one's shoulders head orgasm head over ears head over heels headphone headpiece headpin head pressing head priest head pump headquarter headquarters head-race head race head rag head reach headrest head restraint head rhyme head roll headroom head rush heads heads and thraws headscarf head scarf head-scarf head scratcher head-scratcher head-scratching head scratching heads down heads-down head sea headset headship head shop headshrinker head-shrinker headshunt head shunt head shy head-shy headsman Heads Nook Heads of Ayr heads of the bill Heads of the Valleys Road heads or harps head south head space headspace head-space head-spinning head-spinningly headstall headstand head start headstart head station headstock headstone headstrong heads up heads-up heads-up display heads will roll head tax head teacher headteacher head tenant head-the-ball head to foot head to head head-to-head head to tail head-to-toe head to toe head to wind head trip head-trip head tube head-turner head unit head up head-up display head voice head wall headward headway headwear head wind headwind head wobble heady heap coals of fire on someone's head heels over head hex head bolt hex head screw hex head wrench Hilton Head hit the head hit the nail on the head hold a gun to someone's head hold one's head above water hold one's head high hold over someone's head hole in the head hophead horse head fiddle horsehead fiddle horse-head fiddle hot-head hothead hotheaded in one's head is your head cold jolter head jolt head nail juicehead juice-head juice head junk head keep a civil tongue in one's head keep a cool head keep one's head keep one's head above the water keep one's head above water keep one's head below the parapet keep one's head down keep one's head on a swivel keep one's head on one's shoulders keep one's head upon one's shoulders King Charles' head King Charles's head knob head knock on the head know one's head from a hole in the ground know one's head from one's ass know one's own head knucklehead lame-head lark's head laugh one's head off lay one's head level head level-headed levelheaded lighthead lightheaded like a bear with a sore head like a chicken with its head cut off like a chicken with its head off like a chicken with no head like a hole in one's head like a hole in the head like one needs a hole in the head Lion's Head little head live rent free in someone's head live rent-free in someone's head longhead longheaded loose head lose her head lose his head lose one's head lose one's head if it wasn't attached lose their head lowlihead mace head machine head mad as a bear with a sore head mainmast head make head against make head nor tail of make head or tail of make like a baby and head out make neither head nor tail of make someone's head spin melon head metalhead mill head monk's head mop head muscle head mushroom head muttonhead nail the hammer on the head need one's head examined Negro-head nethead nigger head nigger-head nob head nob-head notehead not right in the head nut head nut-head object head oblique head off one's head off the top of one's head off with someone's head off with their head of its own head old head on young shoulders one's head off on one's head on your head be it other head out of one's head overhead over head and ears over one's head over the head pants-on-head pecker head Phillips head picky head pierhead pigheaded pillhead pinhead pin-head pisshead pithead pit head pitot head plume head pointy head pole head pole-head pope's head poppy head potato head potato-head pothead pressure head price on someone's head print head propeller-head propeller head propellor head puddinghead pull one's head in pumpkin head put a civil tongue in one's head put a gun to someone's head put heads together put one's head above the parapet put one's head in the sand put out of one's head puzzlehead puzzleheaded queer in the head rail head railhead raise one's head raw-head and bloody-bones read/write head read head rear one's head recording head redhead redheaded Ribblehead rip someone's head off road head rocks in one's head roid-head roof over one's head roundhead rowel-head run around like a chicken with its head cut off running head scare-head scratch one's head scream one's head off screw head screwhead shake one's head sharp short-lived head pain sheep's head sherm-head sherm head short head short-head seahorse shower head showerhead shut one's head skinhead sled-head sled head sleepyhead sleepy head slow head smackhead smash someone's head smh one's head snake's-head snake's head snap someone's head off softhead softheaded soft in the head sound head South Bird's Head spear-head Spithead split head spreadhead sprinkler head spud head standing on one's head stand on one's head steering head stick one's head in the sand strawhead stupid-head subhead subheading suedehead swelled head take it into one's head take someone's head off talking head talk over someone's head talk someone's head off tech-head tech head tetched in the head the fish rots from the head the sky will fall on your head thickhead thickheaded think with one's little head think with one's other head tight head tight-head too much bed makes a dull head Torx head touched in the head tow-head towhead Town Head Townhead trail head Trevose Head tuning head Turk's head turk's head turn heads turnip head turn on its head turn someone's head turret head two heads are better than one uneasy lies the head that wears a crown upside the head use one's head veg-head Wasdale Head Wearhead weedhead West Bird's Head West Quoddy Head wet the baby's head wig head windmills in one's head wirehead wise head on young shoulders with one's head held high wolf's head woolly-head would lose one's head if it wasn't attached would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on would lose one's head if it weren't attached wrap one's head around write head wronghead wrongheaded you can't put an old head on young shoulders you can't put a wise head on young shoulders Young Nick's Head your head → Japanese:ヘッド ( heddo ) Sranan Tongo:ede head (notcomparable )
Of, relating to, or intended for the head. of, relating to, or intended for the head
head (third-person singular simple present heads present participle heading simple past and past participle headed
( transitive ) head up Whoheads the board of trustees?
tohead an army, an expedition, or a riot
( transitive ) commence .A group of clownsheaded the procession.
The most important itemsheaded the list.
1943 Railway Magazine , page325 :When it arrived, the train washeaded 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.
2018 Hobson-Jobson ”, inInternational Journal of Lexicography , volume31 , number 4,→DOI 491 :The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and areheaded with a date.
( transitive ) tohead the ball
( intransitive ) direction .We are going tohead up North for our holiday.
Next holiday we willhead out West, orhead to Chicago.
Right now I need tohead into town to do some shopping.
I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going tohead out on my own, set up my own business.
Where does the trainhead to?
1960 Trains Illustrated , page752 :To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the trainheading directly towards it.
( fishing , transitive ) remove the head from (a fish).Coordinate terms: bone debone gut scale descale Near-synonyms: behead dehead The salmon are firstheaded and then scaled.
( intransitive ) originate ; tospring ; to have its course, as a river.1775 James Adair ,The History of the American Indians [4] 223 :a broad purling river, thatheads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
1934 Henry G. Lamond ,An Aviary on the Plains , Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page156 :The Templetonheads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]
( intransitive ) This kind of cabbageheads early.
1995 Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures , New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf ,→ISBN To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year.[ …] headed up.
( transitive , of hardware) tohead a nail
( transitive ) tohead trees
( transitive , obsolete ) behead ; todecapitate .1822 Allan Cunningham , “Ezra Peden ”, inTraditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry , volume 1,page37 :I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those whoheaded , and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
c. 1603–1604 William Shakespeare , “Measure for Measure ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act II, scene i] :If youhead , and hang all that offend that way
To go in front of.tohead a drove of cattle
tohead a person
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.The windheaded the ship and made progress difficult.
( by extension ) check orrestrain .To set on the head.tohead a cask
to be in command of
Basque:zuzendu Belarusian:узнача́льваць impf ( uznačálʹvacʹ ) ,ачо́льваць impf ( ačólʹvacʹ ) Breton:ren (br) Bulgarian:ръководя (bg) ( rǎkovodja ) Catalan:comandar (ca) ,dirigir (ca) ,encapçalar (ca) ,liderar (ca) Dutch:leiden (nl) ,aanvoeren (nl) Esperanto:komandi (eo) ,konduki gvidi ĉefi Finnish:johtaa (fi) ,komentaa (fi) ( military ) French:commander (fr) ,diriger (fr) ,chapeauter (fr) German:führen (de) ,leiten (de) ,anführen (de) ,die Leitung innehaben die Führung innehaben an der Spitze stehen Guaraní:myakã Hebrew:עמד בראש ( amad b’rosh ) Hindi:प्रमुख (hi) m ( pramukh ) ,मुख्य (hi) ( mukhya ) ,मुखिया (hi) m ( mukhiyā ) ,प्रधान (hi) m ( pradhān ) Hungarian:irányít (hu) Icelandic:leiða Indonesian:memimpin (id) Interlingua:commandar diriger leaderar Japanese:指導する ( しどうする, shidō-suru ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:birêvebirin (ku) Norwegian:Bokmål:lede (no) ,anføre Persian:اداره کردن (fa) ( edâre kardan ) Polish:kierować (pl) Portuguese:comandar (pt) ,dirigir (pt) ,liderar (pt) Romanian:comanda (ro) Russian:возглавля́ть (ru) impf ( vozglavljátʹ ) ,возгла́вить (ru) pf ( vozglávitʹ ) ,руководи́ть (ru) impf ( rukovodítʹ ) ,главе́нствовать (ru) impf ( glavénstvovatʹ ) Slovak:viesť Spanish:encabezar (es) ,dirigir (es) ,liderar (es) Swedish:leda (sv) Ukrainian:очо́лювати impf ( očóljuvaty ) ,очо́лити pf ( očólyty )
to come at the beginning of; to commence
to move in a specified direction
Arabic:اِتَّجَهَ ( ittajaha ) Basque:zuzendu Breton:(pleaseverify ) skeiñ war-du Bulgarian:отправям се ( otpravjam se ) Catalan:anar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:往 (zh) ( wǎng ) Dutch:zich begeven (naar /richting )op weg zijn (naar /richting )onderweg zijn (naar ) Esperanto:celi (eo) ,celiri direktiĝi Finnish:suunnata (fi) ,suunnistaa (fi) ,lähteä johonkin kulkea kohti matkata kohti French:se diriger (fr) ,courir (fr) ( for: vers ) ,aller (fr) German:gehen (nach /in Richtung )fahren (nach /in Richtung )sich bewegen (nach /in Richtung )ziehen (nach /in Richtung )(pleaseverify ) auf etwas zusteuern Greek:κατευθύνομαι (el) ( katefthýnomai ) Hebrew:עשה את דרכו Hungarian:halad (hu) ,megy (hu) Icelandic:stefna fara (is) Indonesian:menuju (id) Interlingua:diriger se Italian:andare (it) Japanese:向かう (ja) ( むかう , mukau) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:(pleaseverify ) berê xwe dan derekê (pleaseverify ) ber bi derekê ve çûn Malay:menuju Maori:ahu naka neke Polish:kierować się (pl) ,brać azymut impf wziąć azymut pf Portuguese:dirigir -se encaminhar -se rumar (pt) ,ir (pt) Russian:направля́ться (ru) impf ( napravljátʹsja ) ,напра́виться (ru) pf ( naprávitʹsja ) Slovak:ísť (sk) Spanish:dirigirse (es) ,ir (es) Swedish:åka (sv) Ukrainian:прямува́ти (uk) impf ( prjamuváty ) ,попрямува́ти pf ( poprjamuváty ) ,направля́тися impf ( napravljátysja ) ,напра́витися pf ( naprávytysja )
fishing: to remove the head from a fish
to fit or furnish with a head
to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop
Translations to be checked
FromMiddle English heed Old English hēafod- ( “ main ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *haubida- *haubid ( “ head ” ) . Cognate withSaterland Frisian hööft- West Frisian haad- Dutch hoofd- German Low German höövd- German haupt-
head (notcomparable )
Foremost in rank or importance.Synonym: chief thehead cook
1918 W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter XXXIX, inThe Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company ,→OCLC page307 :At the far end of the houses thehead gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
Placed at the top or the front.Synonyms: first top Coming from in front.Synonyms: foot tail head sea
head wind
foremost in rank or importance
placed at the top or the front
head
inflection ofhea partitive singular nominative plural 
