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HEADED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
Example:
a cool-headed fighter pilot
Classified under:
Similar:
bicephalous (having two heads)
burr-headed (having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly))
headlike (having a protuberance that resembles a head)
large-headed (having a large head)
Antonym:
headless (not having a head or formed without a head)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a heading or caption
Example:
headed notepaper
Classified under:
Antonym:
unheaded (not having a heading or caption)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
Example:
headed cabbages
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
mature (having reached full natural growth or development)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having a heading or course in a certain direction
Example:
westward headed wagons
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb head
Context examples:
You are headed up the ladder of success.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It also plans next year to launch a spacecraft headed to Mars.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
The scientists headed to the field—the rock field.
(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)
The Ad Hoc Working Group was headed by J. Michael Bishop and Paul Calabresi.
(Bishop-Calabresi Report, NCI Thesaurus)
Those in the group with the most headers were three times more likely to have symptoms than those who headed the ball the least.
(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At length the same boy reappeared, and presented me with a note written in pencil, and headed, in a legal manner, “Heep v. Micawber”.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Back he circled, across the drive to the other lawn, and again she headed him off.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Three white-headed children peeped over the fence, and an objectionable dog barked at them from the other side of the river with all his might and main.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The only time they got together they got slangin' because they couldn't agree upon the scientific classification of these red-headed devils that had got hold of us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Who could have seen through such thick-headed nonsense?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
