head

the top of something

“the head of the stairs”

“the head of the page”

“the head of the list”

the source of water from which a stream arises

“they tracked him back toward the head of the stream”

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

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”

a dense cluster of flowers or foliage

“a head of cauliflower”

“a head of lettuce”

the educator who has executive authority for a school

“she sent unruly pupils to see the principal”

an individual person

“tickets are $5 per head”

a user of (usually soft) drugs

“the office was full of secret heads”

a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

a rounded compact mass

“the head of a comet”

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”

the part in the front or nearest the viewer

“he was in the forefront”

“he was at the head of the column”

a difficult juncture

“a pretty pass”

“matters came to a head yesterday”

forward movement

“the ship made little headway against the gale”

a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

“the point of the arrow was due north”

the subject matter at issue

“the question of disease merits serious discussion”

“under the head of minor Roman poets”

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”

the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint

“the head of the humerus”

that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

(usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head

“call heads or tails!”

the striking part of a tool

“the head of the hammer”

(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

a projection out from one end

“the head of the nail”

“a pinhead is the head of a pin”

a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

oral stimulation of the genitals

“they say he gives good head”

be in the front of or on top of

“The list was headed by the name of the president”

form a head or come or grow to a head

“The wheat headed early this year”

remove the head of

“head the fish”