head

Definizione monolingua

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 dizionario 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