For Head we have terms and definitions in 36 topics. The topics are Architecture, Avian, Boating, Book Collecting, Books, Canine, Car Care, Cigar, Construction, Data Recovery, Dream, Ecology, Energy, Entomological, Film, Glazing, Golf, Graphic Design, Hard Drive Recovery, Hippy, Hunting, Insect, Leather, Linux, Red Hat, Natural Gas, Nautical, Paper, Pests, Pirate Lingo, Plumbing, RAID Drive Recovery, Sailing, Sanitation, Spiders, Storage Media and Tennis.

Head (Architecture)

A term that applied to the construction that comprises the entire lintel of a door or window.

Head (Avian)

Upper part of the body.

Head (Boating)

Toilet facilities or room where they are located.

Head (Book Collecting)

Top of the book, esp. at the spine.

Head (Books)

The upper margin of a leaf, cover or endpaper. Also referred to as the top.

Head (Canine)

The front portion of the dog, including the muzzle and the cranium.

Head (Car Care)

An end closure for the filter case or bowl which contains one or more ports.

Head (Cigar)

The closed end of a fine cigar, before you cut and light it at the foot. You should always draw on a cigar through the head.

Head (Construction)

The upper frame on a door or window.

Head (Data Recovery)

A small electromagnetic device inside a drive that reads, writes, and erases data on the drive's media.

Head (Dream)

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 disappointments, and the overthrow of your dearest hopes and anticipations.
To see yourself with two or more heads, foretells phenomenal and rapid rise in life, but the probabilities are that the rise will not be stable.
To dream that your head aches, denotes that you will be oppressed with worry.
To dream of a swollen head, you will have more good than bad in your life.
To dream of a child's head, there will be much pleasure ill store for you and signal financial success.
To dream of the head of a beast, denotes that the nature of your desires will run on a low plane, and only material pleasures will concern you.
To wash your head, you will be sought after by prominent people for your judgment and good counsel.

Head (Ecology)

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.

Head (Energy)

The product of the water's weight and a usable difference in elevation gives a measurement of the potential energy possessed by water.

Head (Entomological)

The anterior body region of insects which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae.

Head (Film)

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

Head (Glazing)

The horizontal member that forms the top of a frame.

Head (Golf)

The part of the golf club that makes contact with the ball.

Head (Graphic Design)

a line or lines of copy set in a larger face than the body copy.

Head (Hard Drive Recovery)

The minute electromagnetic coil and metal pole which write and read back magnetic patterns on the disk. Also known as a read/write head. A drive with several disk surfaces or platters will have a separate head for each data surface. See also MR Head.

Head (Hippy)

A regular user of anything - acid, POT, nitrous oxide etc. etc. etc.

Head (Hunting)

(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 rip current which has widened out seaward of the breakers, also called head of rip.

Head (Insect)

The anterior body region of insects which bears the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae.

Head (Leather)

Off at the flare into the shoulder.

Head (Linux, Red Hat)

The mechanism that reads data from or writes data to a magnetic disk or tape.

Head (Natural Gas)

The differential or pressure, usually expressed in terms of the height of a liquid column that the pressure will support. Also, the differential across a primary measuring device in feet of flowing fluid.

Head (Nautical)

1) The front of a vessel.
2) The upper corner or edge of a sail.
3) The top or front of a part.
4) The toilet and toilet room in a vessel.

Head (Paper)

The top of a page of text which can be a chapter heading, title line, etc…

Head (Pests)

The anterior region of an insect, which bears the mouthparts, eyes, antennae and houses the brain.

Head (Pirate Lingo)

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.

Head (Plumbing)

(1) The pressure of water (or steam) in a closed system (see Pressure Head). It represents the differential in the gravitational force exerted by a liquid at two different depths.
(2) Nautical slang term for toilet

Head (RAID Drive Recovery)

The minute electromagnetic coil and metal pole which write and read back magnetic patterns on the disk. Also known as a read/write head. A drive with several disk surfaces or platters will have a separate head for each data surface. See also MR Head.

Head (Sailing)

A ships toilet.

Head (Sanitation)

(1) The height of the free surface of fluid above any point in a hydraulic system; a measure of the pressure or force exerted by the fluid on a given area. (2) The energy, either kinetic or potential, possessed by each unit weight of a liquid, expressed as the vertical height through which a unit weight would have to fall to release the average energy possessed. It is used in various compound terms such as pressure head, velocity head and loss of head. (3) The upper end of anything, as headworks. (4) The source of anything, as headwater. (5) A comparatively high promontory with either a cliff or steep face extending into a large body of water, such as a sea or lake. An unnamed head is usually called a headland. Also hydraulic head.

Head (Spiders)

The part of the carapace carrying the eyes which is separated from the thorax by a shallow groove.

Head (Storage Media)

The electromagnetic read/write device that detects/imposes flux transitions on the magnetic medium. For example, a disk with four heads has four magnetic surfaces, or platters.

Head (Tennis)

The part of the racket comprising the frame and strings.

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