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- 1 The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
"If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page."
- 2 a headlong jump (or fall) wordnet
- 3 Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
"Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice."
- 4 (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head wordnet
- 5 Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
"That column should have the header "payment status"."
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- 6 a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon wordnet
- 7 A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above. informal
"Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language."
- 8 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 wordnet
- 9 The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
"The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry."
- 10 brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall wordnet
- 11 Clipping of header file. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 12 horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window wordnet
- 13 the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
"The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet."
- 14 a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about wordnet
- 15 A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
"This wall has four header courses."
- 16 A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- 17 A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
"They fed the bale into the header."
- 18 The act of hitting the ball with the head.
"His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick."
- 19 Someone who heads the ball.
- 20 A headlong fall, jump or dive.
"The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header."
- 21 A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- 22 A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
"Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers."
- 23 The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- 24 One who puts a head on something.
- 25 A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person). Ireland, derogatory
- 1 To strike (a ball) with one's head. transitive
Etymology
From head + -er.
From head + -er.
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