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HEADING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
Example:
they dug a drift parallel with the vein
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("heading" is a kind of...):
passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)
Domain category:
excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)
Sense 2
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 ("heading" 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 "heading"):
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("heading" is a kind of...):
direction; way (a line leading to a place or point)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heading"):
tack (the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails)
Derivation:
head (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
head (to go or travel towards)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb head
Context examples:
"The findings raise concerns about the long-term effects from heading the ball, and more research is needed."
(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading ‘Tragedy Near Waterloo Bridge.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The current solar cycle began in December 2008, and is now decreasing in intensity and heading toward solar minimum.
(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)
“Off the Farallones, heading about sou-west,” he answered, slowly and methodically, as though groping for his best English, and rigidly observing the order of my queries.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We were heading S.S.W. and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A collective term for precoordinated organ/neoplasm headings locating neoplasms by organ, as BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; etc.
(Neoplasm by Site, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A listing of occupations that don't fall under another major heading.
(Miscellaneous Occupation, NCI Thesaurus)
Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an immense collision with each other in only a few billion years’ time.
(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
