head

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
2. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
3. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
4. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
5. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
6. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
7. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
8. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
9. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
10. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
11. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
12. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
13. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
14. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
15. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
16. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
17. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
18. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
19. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
20. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
21. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
22. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
23. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
24. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
25. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
26. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
27. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
28. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
29. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
30. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
31. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
32. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
33. A leader or expert.
34. A leader or expert.
35. A leader or expert.
36. (slang) A leader or expert.
37. A significant or important part.
38. A significant or important part.
39. A significant or important part.
40. A significant or important part.
41. A significant or important part.
42. A significant or important part.
43. A significant or important part.
44. A significant or important part.
45. A significant or important part.
46. Headway; progress.
47. Topic; subject.
48. Denouement; crisis.
49. Pressure and energy.
50. Pressure and energy.
51. Pressure and energy.
52. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
53. (slang) The glans penis.
54. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
55. (obsolete) Power; armed force.

Adj

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Verb

1. To be in command of. (See also head up.)
2. To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
3. To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
4. To move in a specified direction.
5. To remove the head from (a fish).
6. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
7. To form a head.
8. To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
9. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
10. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
11. To go in front of.
12. To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
13. To check or restrain.
14. To set on the head.

Adj

1. Foremost in rank or importance.
2. Placed at the top or the front.
3. Coming from in front.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈhɛd/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, 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 cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
cognates
Cognate with Scots 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”).

Sents

The government head of its legal wing is the Attorney General of India .

She wears upon her head a mural crown and veil .

DeBerry was promoted to head coach .