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HEADER
header
(noun) a headlong jump (or fall); “he took a header into the shrubbery”
header
(noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
header
(noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
header
(noun) 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
header, coping, cope
(noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
header, lintel
(noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
heading, header, head
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
header (plural headers)
The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
(computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
(programming) Clipping of header file.
(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors
A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher.
A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
(soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
(soccer) Someone who heads the ball
A headlong fall or jump.
A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
One who puts a head on something.
Synonyms
• (text used to mark off a quantity of text): head, heading
• (brick that is laid sideways): bonder, coping, cope
• (horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening): lintel
Hyponyms
• cache header
• cache-control header
• diving header
Verb
header (third-person singular simple present headers, present participle headering, simple past and past participle headered)
(sports, transitive) To strike (a ball) with one's head.
Anagrams
• Hardee, adhere, heared, hedera, rehead
Source: Wiktionary
Head"er, n.
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. [R.]
3. (Arch.) (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 headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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