Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word head. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in head.
Definitions and meaning of head
head
Alternative forms
heed, hed(obsolete)
'ead(UK, eye dialect)
Pronunciation
enPR: hĕd, IPA(key): /ˈhɛd/
Rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishhed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old Englishhēafd-, hēafod(“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic*haubud, from Proto-Germanic*haubudą(“head”), from Proto-Indo-European*káput-. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of caput, cape, chef and chief.
Noun
head (countable and uncountable, pluralheadsorhead)
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
(people) To do with heads.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
(figurative, metonymically) Mind; one's own thoughts.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
(figurative, metonymically) An individual person.
(animals) To do with heads.
(plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
The population of game.
The antlers of a deer.
(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end of a table.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
(billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
(lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
(music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
(automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
(machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
(uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
(coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
Synonym:barrelhead
(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
(British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
(journalism)Short for headline.
(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
(music) The headstock of a guitar.
(nautical) A leading component.
The top edge of a sail.
The bow of a vessel.
(British) A headland.
(social, countable, metonymically) A leader or expert.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
(metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.
(metonymically, chiefly British, Ireland) A headteacher.
(music, slang, figurative, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
The leafy top part of a tree.
(anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
(nautical) The toilet of a ship.
(in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
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) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
(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.
Headway; progress.
Topic; subject.
(only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
1712 October 18, anonymous letter in The Spectator, edited by Joseph Addison, no. 513, collected in The 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 an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.
(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
(uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Hyponyms:head of steam, hydraulic head
How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
(slang) The glans penis.
(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
(obsolete) Power; armed force.
Usage notes
To give something its head is to allow it to run freely. This is used for horses (as the horse has a mind of its own and is being given free rein to heed it), and, sometimes, figuratively for vehicles.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:head.
Gallery
Synonyms
(part of the body):caput(anatomy); pate, noggin(slang), loaf(slang), nut(slang), noodle(slang), bonce(British slang)
(mental aptitude or talent):mind
(mental or emotional control):composure, poise
(topmost part of anything):top
(leader):boss, chief, leader
(headmaster, headmistress):headmasterm, headmistress f, principal (US)
(toilet of a ship):SeeThesaurus:toiletandThesaurus:bathroom
(top of a sail):
(foam on carbonated beverages):
(fellatio):blowjob, blow job, fellatio, oral sex
(end of tool used for striking):
(blunt end of fastener):
See also Thesaurus:head
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of “topmost part of anything”):base, bottom, underside, foot, tail
(antonym(s) of “leader”):subordinate, underling
(antonym(s) of “blunt end of fastener”):point, sharp end, tip
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Japanese: ヘッド(heddo)
Sranan Tongo: ede
Translations
Adjective
head (not comparable)
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
Translations
Verb
head (third-person singular simple presentheads, present participleheading, simple past and past participleheaded)
(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
(transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
(intransitive) To form a head.
(transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
(by extension) To check or restrain.
To set on the head.
Derived terms
Related terms
ahead
knucklehead
railhead
smackhead
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishheed, from Old Englishhēafod-(“main”), from Proto-West Germanic*haubida-, derived from the noun *haubid(“head”). Cognate with Saterland Frisianhööft-, West Frisianhaad-, Dutchhoofd-, German Low Germanhöövd-, Germanhaupt-.