header

Meaning

Noun

1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
4. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
5. The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of header file.
7. the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
8. A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
9. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
10. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
11. The act of hitting the ball with the head.
12. Someone who heads the ball.
13. A headlong fall, jump or dive.
14. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
15. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
16. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
17. One who puts a head on something.
18. (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).

Verb

To strike (a ball) with one's head.

Synonyms

heading

headline

head

column

lintel

title

footer

letterhead

headbutt

header brick

dive

cope

coping

caption

page header

leader

letterheads

main beam

manifold

name

prelude

ripper

rubric

running title

architrave

top cap

top cover

upper case

billhead

coping stone

running head

effuser

cap piece

pipe header

earth boring machine

end sheet

head cover

header tile

inbond brick

end sheathing

header stone

crown tap

cape hood

bill-head

superscription

bonder

catchword

channel

collector

cover

Translations

en-tête

intestazione

Kopfball

encabezamiento

Kopfzeile

cabeçalho

tête

encabezado

encapçalament

rubrique

colpo di testa

κεφαλίδα

rubriek

Header

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɛdɚ/

Etymology

From head + -er.