HEAD

Head

Head is a 1968 psychedelic adventure comedy film musical starring television rock group The Monkees, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was written and produced by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson, and directed by Rafelson.

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head

Noun

  1. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
  2. Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
  3. Mind; one's own thoughts.
  4. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  5. The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
  6. The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
  7. The principal operative part of a simple machine or tool.
    1. The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.
    2. The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
    3. The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.
    4. The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
  8. The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
  9. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
  10. Headway; progress.
  11. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
  12. Leader; chief; mastermind.
  13. A headmaster or headmistress.
  14. A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
  15. A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
  16. The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
  17. An individual person.
  18. A single animal.
  19. The population of game.
  20. Topic; subject.
  21. 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.
  22. The principal melody or theme of a piece.
  23. Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
  24. The end of an abscess where pus collects.
  25. denouement; crisis
  26. A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
  27. The headstock of a guitar.
  28. A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
  29. A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
  30. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
  31. The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
  32. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
  33. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
  34. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
  35. The top edge of a sail.
  36. The bow of a nautical vessel.
  37. The toilet of a ship.
  38. Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  39. The glans penis.
  40. A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  41. A headland.
  42. The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
  43. Power; armed force.
  44. A headdress; a covering for the head.
  45. An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
  46. The antlers of a deer.
  47. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Verb

  1. To be in command of. (See also .)
    Who heads the board of trustees?
    to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
  2. To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
  3. To move in a specified direction.
    We are going to head up North for our holiday. We will head off tomorrow. Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago. Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.
    I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.
    How does the ship head?
  4. To remove the head from a fish.
    The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
  5. To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  6. To form a head.
    This kind of cabbage heads early.
  7. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
    to head a nail
  8. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
    to head trees
  9. To behead; to decapitate.
  10. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
    to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship
  11. To set on the head.
    to head a cask

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  2. Foremost in rank or importance.
  3. Placed at the top or the front.
  4. Coming from in front.


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