Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing or grown into a head.
- adjective Having a head or heading.
- adjective Having a specified kind or number of heads. Often used in combination.
- adjective Having a mentality of a certain type. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a head; capitate; having a top: used chiefly in composition: as, long-headed; thick-headed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition
- adjective Formed into a head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
head . - adjective Having a
head orheading . - adjective Going towards a certain direction.
- adjective of paper Having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top.
- adjective in combination Having a head with specified characteristics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination
- adjective of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head
- adjective having a heading or course in a certain direction
- adjective having a heading or caption
Etymologies
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Examples
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The global teams are: finance and corporate, headed by London-based Antonia Hardy; private equity, headed by Cayman-based Vicki Hazelden; hedge funds, headed by Dubai-based Rod Palmer; insolvency and restructuring, led by Cayman-based Guy Locke; and litigation, headed by Murray, also in Cayman.
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But even the new Warners still had a very profitable record business consisting of the Warner Reprise label, in which Frank Sinatra held a 20 percent interest; and Atlantic Records, a label headed by Ahmet Ertegun, a Turkish entrepreneur who was a celebrated pop music producer.
Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010
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Wilcox glanced at Art, who without a word headed toward the door.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Wilcox glanced at Art, who without a word headed toward the door.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Wilcox glanced at Art, who without a word headed toward the door.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Young Money artist Omarion recently talked about leaving the label headed by
Rap Basement 2009
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Speaking of musician Chris Coode see yesterday’s Downstream entry on the fall of the house of 8bitrecs.com, his latest album under the Motion moniker, Every Action, is out on 12k Records, the label headed by Taylor Deupree.
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The fanboy throwback-ism that shines through on so many of Chromeo's tracks is perhaps their greatest asset, but in this "100\%" remix done by Treasure Fingers of Fool's Gold (the label headed up by A-Trak, brother of
Prefix 2008
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The money is not there people and with the dollar already loosing it's value to all this spending we are on a freight train headed for runaway inflation; sooner not later. kgeukes
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Thank You Blue Dogs for stopping this freight train headed towards disaster.
Talks break down, intra-party tension heats up for House Democrats 2009
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