From en.wiktionary.org:
[Header]
** English
right
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en][en] From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [hĕd'ər] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout .
2. Text , or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table .
4. [en] A font , text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
5. [en] The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
6. [en] [en] .
7. [en] the first part of a packet or stream , often containing its address and descriptors.
8. [en] A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork , with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
9. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
10. A machine that separate s and gather s the head s of grain etc.
11. [en] The act of hitting the ball with the head.
12. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=October 1, 2011 |author=Phil Dawkes |title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West
Brom |work=BBC Sport
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/15045630.stm |page=
|passage=The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's HEADER
and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes
in.}}
1. [en] Someone who head s the ball.
2. A headlong fall , jump or dive .
3. * [passage="When the rest are in, you see one or two shiverin' on the bank, envyin' the others that have taken the plunge. It's the last that have the worst of it. I'm all for a HEADER and have done with it."]
4. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
5. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
6. The rodeo performer who drive s the steer toward the heeler to be tie d.
7. One who puts a head on something. < !--Chambers 1908-->
8. [en] A headcase ; a nutjob [mentally unbalanced , unpredictable person] .
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|double-header |header guard |headerless |nail header |new-header |pin
header |preheader |pseudoheader |quadruple-header |reheader |subheader
|triple-header }}
**** Translations
[upper portion of a page layout]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [header file C,C++)]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[text used to mark off a quantity of text]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[computing: the first part of a file or record that describes its contents]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[brick that is laid sideways]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Polish: cegła wiążąca [f] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[machine that cuts the heads off of grain]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[headlong fall or jump]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Polish: skok na główkę [m]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[soccer: act of hitting the ball with the head]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [в футбо́ле]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To strike (a ball) with one's head.
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [header (computing)]
- [R:OneLook]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]