head

head

head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)

1. (transitive) To be in command of. - see also head up

   Who heads the board of trustees?

2. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
3. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction. heading towards something

   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. Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.

   Im fed up working for a boss. Im going to head out on my own, set up my own business.

4. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

   The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

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1. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

   Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

2. (uncountable) Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

   The company is looking for somebody with a good head for business.

   He has no head for heights.

3. (countable) Mind; ones own thoughts.

   This song keeps going through my head.

4. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

   What does it say on the head of the page?

5. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

   During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.

6. (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
7. (countable) The principal operative part of a machine.
   1. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
   2. The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.

      Hit the nail on the head!

   3. The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.

      The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.

   4. (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
   Adjective
   

   head (not comparable)

   
   
   1. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
   2. Foremost in rank or importance.

      The head cook.

   3. Placed at the top or the front.
   4. Coming from in front.

      head sea

      head wind

   
   
   

   Definizione italiano>inglese head

   
   

   	testa
   	of, relating to, or intended for the head
   	part of the body
   	Perte del corpo di un animale o di un uomo, che contiene il cervello, la bocca e i principali organi di senso.
   	The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.

   	capo
   	part of the body
   	Persona che comanda, governa o che é responsabile.
   	A person who leads, rules, or is in charge.

   condurre

   guidare

   	direttore
   	Persona che dirige una scuola.
   	The person who is in charge of and runs a school.

   	principale
   	Persona che comanda, governa o che é responsabile.
   	A person who leads, rules, or is in charge.

   capeggiare

   capintesta

   capitolo

   capocchia

   capoccia

   capocuoco

   capolino

   centrale

   cima

   colpire di testa

   corona

   di testa

   dirigente

   dirigere

   dirigersi

   fronte

   guida

   individuo

   intestare

   leader

   mazzòcca-zòcca

   palla

   primo

   promontorio

   punta

   puntare

   testa (parte del corpo)

   testata

   tèsta

   unit

   zucca

   
   

   Altri significati:

   (transitive) To be in command of. - see also head up

   head (of a line)

   Leader of a department or tribe.

   A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

   (uncountable) denouement; crisis

   A clump of leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

   (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

   (intransitive) move in a specified direction

   An individual person.

   The population of game.

   head (e.g. of a crime syndicate)

   In relation to software or documents, the top or beginning of something.

   (uncountable) Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.

   (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.

   (music) The headstock of a guitar.

   coming from in front

   head (of organization, organisation)

   Coming from in front.

   (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.

   The foremost or leading position in a race, a competition.

   (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

   head (of a household)

   a head (of water)

   foremost in rank or importance

   (slang) The glans penis.

   (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

   placed at the top or the front

   A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

   (uncountable, measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.

   mental or emotional control

   (countable) The principal operative part of a machine.

   (fluid dynamics) The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

   (nautical) The toilet of a ship.

   (countable) Leader; chief; mastermind.

   Topic; subject.

   leader or chief

   (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

   head (of cattle)

   end of hammer, etc.

   (UK) A headland.

   the blunt end of a nail, etc.

   (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, '''to head the ball'''

   A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

   Placed at the top or the front.

   The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

   (countable, slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

   mental aptitude or skill

   A headmaster or headmistress.

   The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

   (fluid dynamics) More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

   toilet of a ship

   (intransitive) To move in a specified direction. '''heading towards something'''

   Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

   (uncountable, slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

   capitulum

   (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

   foam on carbonated beverages

   The front, as of a queue.

   (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

   (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

   (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

   headmaster, headmistress

   (transitive) be in command of

   topmost or leading part

   Foremost in rank or importance.

   Headway; progress.

   chief (of police)

   (nautical) The top edge of a sail.

   (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

   (nautical) The bow of a nautical vessel.

   ear (of plant)

   linguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound

   (countable) Mind; one's own thoughts.

   The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

   (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

   (transitive) to strike with the head

   
   
   

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   testa ,capo ,condurre ,guidare ,direttore