header
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (7)
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about“the heading seemed to have little to do with the text”Synonyms: headingheadType of lineKinds title, headline, lemma, running head, crossheading, strapline, subheading, rubric
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or windowSynonyms: lintelType of beam
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wallSynonyms: copingcopeType of brickPart of wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or raftersType of beam
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagonType of harvester, reaper
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your headType of hit, hitting
- a headlong jump (or fall)“he took a header into the shrubbery”
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Translations
Noun header, hitting the ball with the head
Noun upper portion of a page layout
- Spanish
- encabezado
- French
- en-tête
- German
- Kopfzeile
- Italian
- intestazione
- Portuguese
- cabeçalho
- Turkish
- başlık
- Russian
- ве́рхний колонти́тул vérxnij kolontítul
- Chinese
- 页眉 yèméi
- Japanese
- ヘッダー heddā
- Dutch
- kop
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. rare
3. Architecture (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
5. A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or a skateboard, or in bathing; — sometimes, implying the striking of the head on the ground; as, to take a header. colloquial
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.The portion of a packet, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields.
2.The part of an electronic mail message or news article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent.