Meaning Head
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The circular area in the back of the inside of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the retina.
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The device that connects the end of the logging cable or the bridle to the top of the logging tool. It contains the weak point, so that when the weak point is broken and the cable removed, the uppermo [..]
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  The product of the water's weight and a usable difference in elevation gives a measurement of the potential energy possessed by water.
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In hydrologic terms, the difference between the pool height and tailwater height. Usually expressed in feet of head, or in lbs./sq. inch
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Toilet facilities or room where they are located.
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1 [countable] the top part of your body that has your brain, eyes, mouth etc in ita bruise on the side of her headSynonyms and related words The head:bonce, cranial, cranium... Explo [..]
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The level to which ground water in the zone of saturation will rise.
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Vertical change in elevation, expressed in feet or meters, between the head (reservoir) water level and the tailwater (downstream) level.
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Top edge of the text block.
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"to be at the head or in the lead," c. 1200, from head (n.). Meaning "to direct the head (toward)" is from c. 1600. Related: headed, heading. The earliest use of the word as a verb [..]
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"most important, principal, leading," c. 1200, from head (n.). Old English heafod was used in this sense in compounds.
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Old English heafod "top of the body," also "upper end of a slope," also "chief person, leader, ruler; capital city," from Proto-Germanic *haubudam (source also of Old Sax [..]
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the frontmost part of an animal that usually contains the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth
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The upper or proximal portion of a structure; the head of a bone is the rounded end that allows joint rotation
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To head the ball is to play it with the forehead, whether the intention is a clearance, a pass, or a shot at goal. The British describe all three under the general term "header," but the Ame [..]
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The top most segment of the body of a human, also found in other mammals. This stores the brain and eyes and the face in general. Note: this is also the end of a penis, this also stores all thinking c [..]
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1. The act of oral sex, by or to either gender. 2. The tip of the penis, scientifically known as the glans. 3. A drug addict. Can be used in general, or in regard to a specific drug. 4. The part of th [..]
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You begin at the top with a gental kiss as your hands fallow down the shaft. Then You trace your tongue downward and in a circular path being sure to not neglect any side then gently licking the balls [..]
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Oral sex. Gender neutral.
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1. Slang term used for a blowjob. 2. An ugly hideous person. 3. Also see: mole
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1- upper-most part of the human body that controls all bodily functions and contains the brain, at least in some specimens. 2- the process of sucking/licking either the male or the female genitalia un [..]
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When a girl wants to pleasure you by licking, sucking your penis. Often times, teens dont know how to do this, so they practice a lot. They often times forget to be moving her hand up and down on the [..]
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The energy of fluid per weight units; dimensionally expressed as length unit, for example, Newton × meters/Newton = meters.
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The removable top section of a reactor pressure vessel. It is bolted in place during power operation and removed during refueling to permit access of fuel handling equipment to the core.
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That part of the body at the "front" end, where the brain, mouth, and most sensory organs are located.
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The part of the body that contains the brain, organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste.
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(also "club head, clubhead") the part of the club that is intended to make contact with the ball Example: The head of the club had mud all over it. headcover protective sock or sheat [..]
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The upper protion of a vine consisting of the top of the trunk and arms. Vine training: A simple system of vine training in which the upright trunk is held by a stake; it terminates in short permanent [..]
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or composite
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One end of the golf club is the grip, the other end is the head or clubhead. The clubhead is the part of the golf club, with which a golf club strikes the golf ball. In general, there are many different types of heads. The design of the head can be flat, large and rounded or hollow. The different shapes of the head can influence many different fact [..]
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(1) To cut off part of a shoot or limb rather than removing it completely at a branching point. (2) The part of a tree from which the main scaffold limbs originate.
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A cluster of flowers, collection of branches at the top of the trunk of a tree, or the hearted part of a green vegetable, e.g., cabbage.
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the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window" to go or travel towards; & [..]
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golf game terms for area of the club that connects with the golf ball.
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see "club head
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The abbreviation for club head
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The end of the club that produces bollixes and mis-hits as opposed to the end of the club that produces calluses and blisters. See GRIP
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The part of the club that makes contact with the ball. Usually made of wood, iron or some substitute material.
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An end closure for the filter case or bowl which contains one or more ports.
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The inflorescence of many grass plants, including small grains.
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The part of the club that you hit the ball with.
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The lowest part of a golf-club. See page 18.
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the part of your body above your neck. The same word also means a person who is in charge; a chief or leader
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A device that reads, writes, and/or erases data on a storage medium.
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The clubhead.
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Generally a helmet was used to defend the head; a camail and casque
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Rest room and shower facilities in a building or aboard a ship.
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Internet Glossary The mechanism that reads data from or writes data to a magnetic disk or tape. If the head becomes dirty, it will not work properly. This is one of the first things to check if your disk drive or tape drive begins to malfunction. The head is sometimes called a read/write head. Double-sided floppy disk drives have two heads, one for [..]
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the anterior most of the three main body parts of an insect. Read more on: Head
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The Head is the part of an HTML document that contains metadata about that document, such as author, description, and links to CSS or JavaScript files that should be applied to the HTML. Learn more HT [..]
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Definition noun
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The uppermost portion of a human that contains the brain and major sense organs. heart
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(n.) The mechanism that reads data from or writes data to a magnetic disk or tape. If the head becomes dirty, it will not work properly. This is one of the first things to check if your disk drive or [..]
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The top of a page of text which can be a chapter heading, title line, etc…
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kop
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The end of the cartridge case in which the primer or priming is inserted and the surface upon which the headstamp identification is imprinted.
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1.: The beginning of a shot or a roll is called the head. 2.: A small round clamp, usually used in conjunction with an arm on a C-Stand. 3.: The Tripod Head
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To see a person's head in your dream, and it is well-shaped and prominent, you will meet persons of power and vast influence who will lend you aid in enterprises of importance. If you dream of your own head, you are threatened with nervous or brain trouble. To see a head severed from its trunk, and bloody, you will meet sickening disappointmen [..]
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Noun. Oral sex. E.g."She gives good head."
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1. The part of a disk drive that reads data from the magnetic surface and writes to it. 2. The section of a program that has all of the creation and modification information.
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The HTML tag used to enclose the beginning elements in the HTML document, including the title.
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any of a number of individuals by heads : with an equal share to each individual : per capita used in the rules of intestate succession in Louisiana
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The top of a book, page, or column. In typography, the term head is also an abbreviation for the term heading.
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Part of bicycle frame that holds crank and sprocket assembly.
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The end of a stone which has been tooled to match the face of the stone. Heads are used at outside corners, windows, door jams, or any place where the veneering will be visible from the side.
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the closed end of the cigar, or the end you cut and smoke.
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the foam at the top of a poured beer.
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(adult) – The head of the adult weevil has a more or less bulbous head capsule
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Main horizontal frame member at the top of a window or door.
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hydrology - hydrostatic potential, or pressure difference between two water surfaces or depths, usually expressed in feet or inches of water
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The upper part of the microscope that contains the eyepiece tube and prisms.  A monocular head has one eyepiece, a binocular has two (one for each eye), a dual head has two but they are not together, and a trinocular head has three, one which is generally used for a camera connection.
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The projecting part--for instance, the head of a tape recorder, which records and plays back the magnetic signals; the designation of parts of a TV camera. The camera consists of the camera head (the [..]
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A measurement of pressure, usually in feet of water. A 30 foot head is the pressure equivalent to the pressure found at the base of the column of water 30 feet high.
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A head is the part of a composite fiber placement machine that brings together a set of tows and feeds them to a roller which presses them onto the form. The spools of tow material may be mounted on the head, or the tows may be transported from a creel area to the head, as needed. In this picture, the 12 large cylinders around the outside represent [..]
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Largest point of a forging.
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[Inflorescence types] -- A racemose inflorescence with unstalked flowers aggregated in a dense cluster.
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The read/write head of a TM identifies one cell of the tape, which is first read from and then written to as part of the action performed for a transition.
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See Backbox.
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topic of discourse.
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The first (and last) chorus of a tune, in which the song or melody is stated without improvisation or with minimal improvisation.
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Headline. Editors generally want headlines to be punchy, compelling, and draw readers in so they want to read an article.
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Foam at the top of beer caused by carbonation. Foams vary greatly between beer styles. Headspace:
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A non-obligatory component of an intonation pattern. Some writers use the term to refer to any material before the intonation nucleus. More recently the term has been used to refer to the material fro [..]
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toilet
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The highest part of a body of water where water pressure is measured from
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The vertical height of the water in a reservoir above the turbine.  In general, the higher the head, the more electricity is generated per acre-foot.
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The height difference between the source of water flow at a dam and its outflow. The greater the head, the greater potential energy stored by the water, and thus the greater capacity of a dam to produ [..]
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The depth of water in a hydroelectric plant reservoir that is above the level of the plant's turbines. High heads (those of more than 65 feet) are more feasible producers than low heads, because they provide more water pressure with which to produce power.
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        A term for the potty, facilities, rest room, "Jon", Throne, etc...  :o)
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(n.) Of a comet, the nucleus and coma together.
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A marine toilet. Also the upper corner of a triangular sail.
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Health, Education Accommodation & Drugs Team
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Toilet/Basin/Shower. The top corner of a sail that is connected to the halyard.
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(Latin, caput; Saxon, hefod; Scotch, hafet; contracted into head.)
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(b. near Rochester, 1793; d. July 23rd, 1875). “Rough Notes on the Pampas” (1826); “A Life of Bruce the Traveller” (1830); “Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nas [..]
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A comparatively high promontory with a steep face. An unnamed head is usually described as a headland. Also, the inner part of a bay, creek, etc, eg the head of the bay. Also, the seaward end of a jet [..]
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For a triangular sail, the top corner. Also a marine toilet.
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The equivalent height of the liquid. 20° C. water is used as the standard where 10 meters (33.9 ft.) of water equals one atmosphere (14.7 psi. or 1 bar). The term head is used instead of pressure in the centrifugal pump business.
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Vertical change in elevation, expressed in either feet or meters, between the head water level and the tail water level.
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The head of a fastener is the enlarged configuration, preformed on one end of a headed fastener, to provide a bearing surface.
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The distance the pump will push water vertically. The greater the distance the higher the pressure developed by the pump.
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The measure of pressure at the base or other reference point of a column of fluid. Normally measured in feet of water.
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The energy per unit mass of fluid divided by gravitation acceleration. The head may also be considered as the height of a column of fluid at rest giving a pressure onto its bottom surface equivalent to the energy per unit mass being acted upon by the acceleration due to gravity.
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A drug addict.
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Vertical change in elevation, expressed in meters, between the head water level and the tailwater level.
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The depth of water in a hydroelectric plant reservoir that is above the level of the plant’s turbines. High heads (those of 65 or more feet) are more feasible producers than low heads, because they provide more water pressure with which to produce power.
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The front portion of the dog, including the muzzle and the cranium.
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A part of the compression chamber in a fuel-powered engine.
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An alignment head is a device which clamps to a wheel, to give a technician the ability to check the condition of the vehicle's wheel alignment.
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(kjerne (i en frase)): the most important word in a phrase; the word that carries the main meaning of the phrase and that cannot be taken away. The head of a noun phrase is a noun (or a pronoun); the [..]
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The beginning of a theme.
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(1) A comparatively high promontory with either a cliff or steep face. It extends into a large body of water, such as a sea or lake. An unnamed head is usually called a headland. (2) The section of ri [..]
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In musical notation, the bulk of a note or neume, not including the stem. Often found in a variety of shapes including square, diamond, and oblique.
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The main horizontal part forming the top of the window frame.
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Main horizontal frame member at the top of a window or door. Header:
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Froth on top of a drink. Most often associated with draft beer or poured out bottled beer. A decent “head” is a hallmark of a good pour – beer which is not flat and whose maximum flavor has been released.
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3/4 to an inch of foam sitting on top of a beer in the glass.
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The hemispheric articular surface at the Upper Extremity of the thigh bone. (Stedman, 26th ed)
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The portion of the upper rounded extremity fitting into the Glenoid Cavity of the SCAPULA. (from Stedman, 27th ed)
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Soft Tissue Tumors or cancer arising from the mucosal surfaces of the LIP; Oral Cavity; Pharynx; Larynx; and cervical Esophagus. Other sites included are the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses; Salivary Gland [..]
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The portion of the Optic Nerve seen in the fundus with the Ophthalmoscope. It is formed by the meeting of all the Retinal Ganglion Cell Axons as they enter the Optic Nerve.
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The anterior portion of the Spermatozoon (Spermatozoa) that contains mainly the nucleus with highly compact Chromatin material.
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The ship's water closet (toilet or wash-room). The upper edge of a quadrilateral sail.
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Very front of ship; the bow. The sanitary facilities were located at the head, hence the nautical nickname for toilets.
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1. The forwardmost or uppermost portion of the ship. 2. The toilet or latrine of a vessel, which in sailing ships projected from the bows and therefore was located in the "head" of the vesse [..]
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In four-sided sails is the upper edge;
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the top of a sail
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1, the top corner of a triangular sail; as in: We attach the halyard to the head of the sail. 2, The bathroom on a boat; as in: Many boats have more than one head. 3, The front of the boat, the bow ar [..]
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A marine toilet. Also the upper corner of a triangular sail.
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(1) The bow of a vessel. (2) Term given to toilet facilities usually in the smaller craft context.
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The toilet or latrine of a vessel, which in sailing ships projected from the bows. Also the top edge of a sail.
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The lavatory aboard a ship is known as the "head."  The expression comes from the fact that on the sailing ships the toilet was located forward, close to the figurehead or the "head [..]
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    (1) The upper end of a lower mast boom; (2) compartment containing toilet facilities; (3) ship's bow.  
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  Place in ship or on shore station which might otherwise be called a rest room, washroom, or toilet.  
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1.The area forward of the forecastle and beak. 2.The top edge of a four sided sail.
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(1) A marine toilet or the compartment containing a toilet. (2) Generally, the top or forward part. (3) The upper corner of a triangular sail. (4) The top portion of a mast.
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 The toilet or lavatory of a ship.
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bathroom. In the days of sail, toilet facilities were found far forward in the bows, so that the smell would be blown downwind and away from the ship (since sailing ships could not lie directly into t [..]
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The toilet or latrine of a vessel, which for sailing ships projected from the bows
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Toilet; believed to be derived from 'vessels head' when a small platform outside the bulwarks near the bow was the only semblance of sanitary facilities
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nautical term for rest room, washroom or toilet.
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forward part of a vessel; also the toilet
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ship toilet 2Also the upper corner of a triangular sail.
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The toilet
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A change in the wind direction which forces the helmsman of a close hauled sailboat to steer away from its current course to a less favorable one. This is the opposite of a lift.
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Marine toilet. In their original form, toilet facilities were found right forward in the bows, so that the smell would be blown downwind and away from the ship (since sailing ships could not lie direc [..]
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1. top corner of a triangular sail & the top edge of a square sail   2. the front of the ship including the bow and adjacent areas   3. the toilet or latrine on board a vessel. (On older sailing s [..]
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(1) A marine toilet or the compartment containing a toilet. (2) Generally, the top or forward part. (3) The upper corner of a triangular sail. (4) The top portion of a mast.
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The toilet facilities aboard a modern ship. This will do for modern piratical talk. The toilet facilities aboard an ACTUAL pirate ship do not bear thinking about.
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The front portion of the dog, including the muzzle and the cranium.
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First major section of the invertebrate body, usually bearing the eyes and antennae
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The centre of a phrase or sentence which is possibly qualified by further optional elements, in the phrase these bright new signs the head is signs as all other elements refer to it and are optional. [..]
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head, heads; head, heads, headed, heading off
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The fore part of a vessel. The upper part of a sail. "By the head" means pressed or trimmed down by the head, in contradistinction of "by the stern." To head is to pass ahead of an [..]
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One of the three main regions comprising an insect.  It is the region at the front and bears most of the sensory organs, such as the antennae.
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The anterior body region of insects which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae. Hematophagous.
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the first or anterior division of the insect body where the eyes and antennae are found
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 (noun) - the front body segment of an insect. The mouthparts, eyes and antennae are located here.
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The foam on beer.
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The tagma which is the center of sensory perception and food ingestion; the region bearing the functional mouth as in the larva of Musca domestica.
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  The first segment of an insect’s body.  The head is at the front of the body and bears the eyes, antennae and mouthparts. Hemimetabolous Lifecycle:
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First major portion on the body of the scale; containing the mouthparts
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The anterior body region of insects which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae.
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The place where the brain and sense organs of most animals is located. With insects, the head is the first of three sections (head, thorax, abdomen). It contains eyes, antennae, and mouthparts.
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the anterior body region that bears the eyes, antennae and mouthparts
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first body region of an insect, bearing the eyes, antennae and proboscis
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the anterior region of an insect, which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae
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The front section of a butterfly (or other insect) which contains the eyes, antennae and proboscis. On the larvae the head contains the mandibles, eyes and sometimes setae.
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The protein shell (or "capsid") of a phage. Also known as: Capsid
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The vertical distance, height, or energy of water above a reference point. A head of water may be measured in either height (feet or meters) or pressure (pounds per square inch or kilograms per square [..]
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A measure of pressure at a point in a water system, expressed in bar, psi or in the height of a column of water, which would produce the pressure.
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In a jewelry setting, the head is specifically made up of the prongs that hold the stone in place.
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grade
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, (1) sb. used for mouth. ‘Not a word out of your head.’ ‘Every tooth in my head was aching.’ ‘The doctor said he was never to have the milk away from his head.’ This of a person who required constant [..]
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Output the first part of files, see Section 3.3.4.3
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The energy, in foot pounds, required to compress adiabatically to deliver one pound of a given gas from one pressure level to another.
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The energy, in foot pounds, required to compress polytropically to deliver one pound of a given gas from one pressure level to another.
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The difference between the pool height and tailwater height. Usually expressed in feet of head, or in lbs./sq. inch.
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Number shot
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Target with an aspect of 160 deg. to 180 deg.
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See HEADLAND.
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It's said that "a dear child has many names."  If so, this spot must be dear indeed.  Known to landlubbers by such names as John, comfort station, commode, throne, rest room, wash room, [..]
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Target with an aspect of 160 deg. to 180 deg.
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The most rapidly spreading portion of a fire s perimeter, usually to the leeward or upslope.
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The head aboard a Navy ship is the bathroom. The term comes from the days of sailing ships when the place for the crew to relieve themselves was all the way forward on either side of the bowsprit, the [..]
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The plastic portion of a lacrosse stick where a player catches a lacrosse ball.
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The upper portion of the stock, when it is divided in two parts for easier handling.
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– This refers to the pair of tiles that a player has to have in most hands in order to go out.
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The upper portion of the stock, when it is divided in two parts for easier handling.
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(Face)
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In hydrologic terms, the difference between the pool height and tailwater height. Usually expressed in feet of head, or in lbs./sq. inch
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Pressure of fluid expressed in terms of height of column of the fluid, such as water or mercury.
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In flowing fluid, height of fluid equivalent to its velocity pressure.
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(1) To cut off part of a shoot or limb rather than removing it completely at a branching point. (2) The part of a tree from which the main scaffold limbs originate.
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The bowls that have come to rest around the jack within the boundary of the rink.
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the pressure of a fluid owing to its elevation, usually expressed in feet of head or in pounds per square inch, since a measure of fluid pressure is the height of a fluid column above a given or known [..]
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a bathroom
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The term head refers to the change in elevation of the water.
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HTTP version 1.1 details eight methods (requests), but is extensible. The described methods are OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, CONNECT, DELETE, and TRACE. According to the specification, all HTTP servers (web servers) must support the GET and HEAD methods, but all other methods are optional. If the other methods are supported, the support must conf [..]
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Some one who enjoys and does a lot of certain drugs like "pot head" or "acid head". 
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Some one who does certain drugs like "pot head" or "acid head".
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The foam that is floating on top of a beer in a glass. Should be 3/4 to 1 inch.
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The top portion of a window or door frame.
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The horizontal piece forming the top of the frame on a window or door.
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In hydrologic terms, the difference between the pool height and tailwater height. Usually expressed in feet of head, or in lbs./sq. inch
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The head refers collectively to the Jack and the bowls that have been delivered and come to rest within the boundaries of the rink.
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1) In tape recording, the transducer (energy converter) that changes the audio energy from electrical energy to magnetic energy and back; also the devices that apply magnetism to the recording tape fo [..]
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The measure of the pressure of water expressed in feet of height of water: 1 psi = 2.31 feet of water.
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(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth (Hit the nail on the head!) ## The sharp end of an arrow, spear{{, or pointer. ##: (The head of the compass n [..]
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from=Middle English|dot=, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
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Oral sex.
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The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Head or Heads may also refer to: Human head
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head is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to display the beginning of a text file or piped data.
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Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group the Monkees (Davy Jones, Peter To [..]
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In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water is the noun water. Analogo [..]
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A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, a [..]
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The head (pl. heads) is a ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship.
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The head (pl. heads) is a ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship.
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In its broadest sense, the head of a piece of music is its main theme, particularly in jazz, where the term takes on a more specific set of innovation. In other types of music, "head" may refer to the [..]
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Head is the soundtrack to the film Head, the only theatrical release by the Monkees. Released in 1968 through Colgems, it was the band's sixth album. Head was the last Monkees album to feature vocal c [..]
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Head is the first full album by The Jesus Lizard. It was released on Touch and Go Records in 1990. It was their first album to feature a drummer, Mac McNeilly.
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"Head" is the second episode of the BBC period comedy Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.
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Head were an English rock band of the late 1980s.
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Head Sport GmbH is an American-Austrian manufacturing company headquartered in Kennelbach. It owns the American tennis racket brand Head. Head GmbH is a group that includes several previously independ [..]
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Head describes deposits consisting of fragmented material which, following weathering, have moved downslope through a process of solifluction. The term has been used by British geologists since the mi [..]
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A head is one of the end caps on a cylindrically shaped pressure vessel.
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The Cooper Temple Clause was an English alternative rock band, formed in Wokingham, Berkshire in 1998. The band released three albums before announcing their split on 24 April 2007, following the depa [..]
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Head is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alicia Esteve Head (born 1973), Spanish impostor Anthony Head (born 1954), English actor and musician Antony Head, 1st Viscount He [..]
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"Head" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Julian Cope. It is the third and final single released in support of his album Peggy Suicide.
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"Head" is the ninth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on December 11, 2013, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim [..]
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