首页英语词典headhead英英释意

head

英[hed] 美[hɛd]
  • n. 头;头痛;上端;最前的部分;理解力
  • vt. 前进;用头顶;作为…的首领;站在…的前头;给…加标题
  • vi. 出发;成头状物;船驶往
  • adj. 头的;主要的;在顶端的
  • n. (Head)人名;(英)黑德

英英释意


1. the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains;
"he stuck his head out the window"
2. a single domestic animal;
"200 head of cattle"
3. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;
"his mind wandered"
"I couldn't get his words out of my head"
4. a person who is in charge;
"the head of the whole operation"
5. the front of a military formation or procession;
"the head of the column advanced boldly"
"they were at the head of the attack"
6. the pressure exerted by a fluid;
"a head of steam"
7. the top of something;
"the head of the stairs"
"the head of the page"
"the head of the list"
8. the source of water from which a stream arises;
"they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
9. (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
10. the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
11. the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head;
"he is two heads taller than his little sister"
"his horse won by a head"
12. a dense clusters of flowers or foliage;
"a head of cauliflower"
"a head of lettuce"
13. the educator who has executive authority for a school;
"she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
14. an individual person;
"tickets are $5 per head"
15. a user of (usually soft) drugs;
"the office was full of secret heads"
16. a rounded compact mass;
"the head of a comet"
17. the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container;
"the beer had a large head of foam"
18. the part in the front or nearest the viewer;
"he was in the forefront"
"he was at the head of the column"
19. a difficult juncture;
"a pretty pass"
"matters came to a head yesterday"
20. forward movement;
"the ship made little headway against the gale"
21. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;
"the point of the arrow was due north"
22. the subject matter at issue;
"the question of disease merits serious discussion"
"under the head of minor Roman poets"
23. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about;
"the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
24. the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint;
"the head of the humerus"
25. that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
26. (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
27. (usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head;
"call heads or tails!"
28. the striking part of a tool;
"the head of the hammer"
29. (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
30. a projection out from one end;
"the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin"
31. a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
32. oral-genital stimulation;
"they say he gives good head"