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HEADER
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Irregular inflected form: header
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A headlong jump (or fall)
Example:
he took a header into the shrubbery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
jump; jumping (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)
Domain category:
association football; soccer (a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
harvester; reaper (farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
brick (rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material)
Holonyms ("header" is a part of...):
wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
Synonyms:
header; lintel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
Example:
the heading seemed to have little to do with the text
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):
line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "header"):
crosshead; crossheading (a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text)
headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)
lemma (the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry)
rubric (a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type)
running head; running headline (a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book)
subhead; subheading (a heading of a subdivision of a text)
rubric; statute title; title (a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with)
Derivation:
head (be in the front of or on top of)
Context examples:
A header concept for the various measurement units based on the mile.
(Mile Unit of Distance, NCI Thesaurus)
There is a faulty connector/header in the device.
(Faulty Device Connector/Header, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
The other three took complete headers, and came up again drenched and bubbling.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A file format consisting of a 10-byte header containing a magic number, a version number, and a timestamp, a Deflate-compressed body, and an 8-byte footer containing a checksum and the length of the original uncompressed data.
(gzip File Format, 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)
