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header
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun header has 7 senses
- header(n = noun.communication) head, heading - 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" has particulars: crosshead, crossheading, headline, newspaper headline, lemma, rubric, running head, running headline, subhead, subheading, rubric, statute title, title
- header(n = noun.artifact) lintel - horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window; Array is a kind of beam
- header(n = noun.artifact) cope, coping - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall; Array is a kind of brick
- header(n = noun.artifact) Array - a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters; Array is a kind of beam
- header(n = noun.artifact) Array - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon; Array is a kind of harvester, reaper
- header(n = noun.act) Array - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head; Array is a kind of hit, hitting, striking
- header(n = noun.act) Array - a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" is a kind of jump, jumping
is a kind of line
Derived form verb head7
is a part of wall
CIDE DICTIONARY
header, n.
- One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. [1913 Webster]
- One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [1913 Webster]
- A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. [1913 Webster]
- A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
header, n.
1 Football a shot or pass made with the head.
2 colloq. a headlong fall or dive.
3 a brick or stone laid at right angles to the face of a wall.
4 (in full header-tank) a tank of water etc. maintaining pressure in a plumbing system.
1 Football a shot or pass made with the head.
2 colloq. a headlong fall or dive.
3 a brick or stone laid at right angles to the face of a wall.
4 (in full header-tank) a tank of water etc. maintaining pressure in a plumbing system.
THESAURUS
header
belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive, cropper, culbute, dive, drop, fall, flop, forced landing, gainer, jackknife, nose dive, parachute jump, pitch, plunge, pounce, power dive, pratfall, running dive, sky dive, spill, sprawl, stationary dive, stoop, stumble, swan dive, swoop, trip, tumble
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