Word Finder - heads

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The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.

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Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

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The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

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What does it say at the head of the page?

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(social, metonymy) A leader or expert.

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A significant or important part.

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Headway; progress.

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We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

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Topic; subject.

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We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

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Denouement; crisis.

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These isses are going to come to a head today.

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(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

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Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

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She gave great head.

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The glans penis.

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A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

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Power; armed force.

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A pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

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• can (slang)
• heads

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That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.

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The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar.

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Heads, I win.

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• obverse

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Draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.

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Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

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A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.

We're trying to figure out what Darkyn is doing planting a shape-shifter demon on the mortal realm, Rhyn said, referring to the demon lord who wanted both their heads on pikes.

The three men shook their heads no.

If Annie's abductor was still operating, that literally reversed the odds that we'd knock heads with him if he remained active!

The nearest vamps bowed their heads and moved away from him.

They had knocked heads and locked wills over the death of a Bird Song guest during the prior January's Ice Climbing Festival when bitter words were exchanged.

Somewhat relieved, she read his biography, impressed by his clientele, who ranged from heads of countries around the world to the richest families on the planet.

A stone cottage up the road was the only sign of inhabitation, and a herd of sheep raised their heads as he neared.

The heads of the clans also in exile will come to meet you.

This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor.

Harold and Charlie shook their heads no.

Both death dealers bowed their heads without hesitation.

Gabriel knew they were loyal before he placed hands on their heads based on their body language.

I already knew you could tear people's heads off.

Opposite the living room was a massive bathroom with marble floors, a Jacuzzi, small sauna, and a large shower with multiple shower heads.

She suspected both meeting the clan heads and the announcement to be big deals for a people with such rigid traditions, but A'Ran looked as if he were discussing the whereabouts of her translator.

Now, let's put our heads together and do this right.

As the maître d' lead them to their table, he was acutely aware of the heads turning to watch them.

Connor groaned, "At least my mother finally stopped looking at me like I had two heads."

Pushing each other aside, they buried their beaks in the water and lifted their heads, eyeing her suspiciously as the water trickled down their throats.

Twenty acres and they were always at the fence line, poking their heads through to eat the brush on the other side.

They're a pair of fat, stupid, nasty punks who got in over their heads.

I won't give those shit heads the sat­isfaction of seeing me cry.

But once back in bed, the complexities and the happenings of the day raised their heads like so many ghosts crying for attention in his tired brain.

There are still too many shit heads out there that think a woman is only for cooking and you-know-what.

Cynthia said it loud enough to turn heads at the adjoining table.

Green trees in every shade clumped together like heads of overripe broccoli.

Even his sisters were scratching their heads.

She always seemed to know what was going on inside people's heads, and to anticipate how a person would react to a given circumstance.

I'll stab and slash and chop off their heads!

As someone accustomed to planting ideas in the heads of others, she recognized the thought as coming from someone else.

There was a note affixed to the deer head, and she suspected it said the same thing as the other notes on animal heads she'd found around the house.

He retrieved the bag with the heads of the Others from a locker and exited into the hall.

They turned at his voice, glanced at each other before shaking their heads.

Alfonso wasn't a bad boy, but when he and Jonathan got their heads together, they made some poor choices.

Their heads jerked up, water dripping from their muzzles as they looked around, their ears perked forward searching for any sound that might indicate danger.

Alex and Gerald talked around and over the bobbing heads of children on their laps as if it were an everyday occurrence.

You can tell the poisonous ones because they lift their heads out of the water while they swim.

Motion is communicated to the forks by female screws tapped in the heads m and n acting on the screws o and p respectively.

Two other screws, o, p, the heads of which are not graduated, give motions to the whole micrometer box through t 1 mm.

By means of the quick rack motions A and B move the plate so as to bring the reseau-square into the centre of the field of the micrometer; then, by means of the screw heads o, p, perfect the coincidence of the " fixed square " of webs, with the image of the reseau-square.

Some see the guarantee, or at least the indication, of infallibility in the consensus of the Church (quod semper, ubique, et ab omnibus) expressed from time to time in general councils; others see it in the special grace conferred upon St Peter and his successors, the bishops of Rome, as heads of the Church; others again see it in the inspired Scriptures, God's Word.

In the first place is the official recognition by the state of the Catholic religion 1 These are arranged under thirty-five distinct heads in Nussi's Quinquaginta conventiones de rebus ecclesiasticis (Rome, 1869).

He pressed on the Exclusion Bill with all his power, and, when that and the inquiry into the payments for secret service and the trial of the five peers, for which too he had been eager, were brought to an end by a sudden prorogation, he is reported to have declared aloud that he would have the heads of those who were the king's advisers to this course.

The Turks raised as a monument of their victory a high tower composed entirely of the heads of the Servians slain in the battle of Nish.

The rivalry between the French and English factions in Scotland was complicated by private feuds of the Hamiltons and Douglases, the respective heads of which houses, Arran and Angus, were contending for the supreme power in the absence of Albany in France, where at the instance of Henry VIII.

He is described as a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.

He worked hard at his book on refraction, and dissected the heads of animals in order to explain imagination and memory, which he considered physical processes.'

It dashes at once into the middle of the subjects with the examination of a problem which had baffled the ancients, and seems as if it were tossed at the heads of the French geometers as a challenge.

In 1671 the archbishop of Paris, by the king's order, summoned the heads of the university to his presence, and enjoined them to take stricter measures against philosophical novelties dangerous to the faith.

The strict distinction between nimbus and aureole is not commonly maintained, and the latter term is most frequently used to denote the radiance round the heads of saints, angels or persons of the Godhead.