head-to-headadv.adj.n.

Brit.

/ˌhɛdtəˈhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈˌhɛdtəˈhɛd/

Forms: see head n.¹ and to prep.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: head n.¹, to prep.

Etymology: < head n.¹ + to prep. + head n.¹ With use with reference to private conversation (sense A. 2 and C. 1) compare earlier tête-à-tête adv. and tête-à-tête n.

A. adv.

a. So that the heads of two people, animals, etc., touch or are close together, esp. in confrontation or combat; head-on; (more generally) at close quarters.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [adverb] > at close-quarters

handlingsa1400

hand by hand?a1439

hand unto handc1540

head-to-head1556

half-sword1589

at the sera1591

half-staff1603

close quarters1809

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 264 An other constellation is there which ioyneth heade to heade with Hercules, and is called of the Greekes, Ophiuchus.

1588 E. Aggas tr. F. de La Noue Politicke & Mil. Disc. xii. 161 I haue shewed with what inconstancie men vse to make quarels without any ground, also with what furie they afterward fight head to head.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion 6 With collars be they yokt, to proue the arme at length, Like Bulls set head to head, with meere delyuer strength.

1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre vii. 436 The Syracusians..fighting..with their Gallies head to head with those of the Athenians, and prouided with beakes for the purpose.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 The stooping Warriours, aiming Head to Head, Engage their clashing Horns.

1785 H. Boyd tr. Dante Inferno I. vii. xix. 285 Now, head to head, their clashing fronts engage Each other, now with lion-ramp they spurn.

1841 R. E. Landor Faith's Fraud iii. iv, in Earl of Brecon 159 Call home thy wits and answer me at once. I hate this butting head to head with questions!

1874 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 470/1 Their tusks clash together, they struggle head to head.

1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iv. 260 The two nautch girls, who had sunk to the floor and sat huddled against each other, arm in arm, head to head, in a kind of ecstasy, giggled at the wrestler's phrase.

1960 J. Kerouac Lonesome Traveler vii. 155 One splendid woodcarving showing the Last Supper with bunched Apostles grieving head-to-head.

2006 I. J. Newsome & T. J. Pettitt Even More Things about Tommy 22 He and Tommy met head to head at the passenger door.

b. figurative (originally U.S.). In direct competition, rivalry, or conflict. Now chiefly in to go head-to-head: to compete directly.rare before mid 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adverb] > manner of competition

head-to-head1851

tightly1883

mano a mano1973

1851 Louisville (Kentucky) Daily Jrnl. 19 July 2/1 Mr. Merriweather..called a meeting for himself..and made a speech there... He shrinks from an encounter before the Louisville public hand to hand, or rather head to head, with his powerful antagonist.

1960 Lima (Ohio) News 6 Mar. b5/9 Neither Sen. Ross Pepple nor his primary opponent, Attorney A. Marshall Rodgers, have yet come head-to-head on issues.

1975 W. Ivey in B. C. Malone & J. McCulloh Stars of Country Music 276 Sholes, then a field A&R man for RCA, was seeking a country artist to compete head-to-head with Merle Travis.

1990 P. Auster Music of Chance ii. 33 That's what I want to do. Build up enough cash to buy into that game and go head to head with the best.

2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 July (Business section) 3 Tesco and Sainsbury's went head to head this weekend with aggressive drives to tempt..consumers into their shops.

2. Face to face; in private or intimate conversation. Cf. tête-à-tête adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > intimately or familiarly > face to face or in private

head-to-head1697

tête-à-tête1710

1697 P. Hollingworth tr. C. F. Franckenstein Hist. Intrigues & Gallantries Queen of Sweden 146 He sought for an opportunity to speak to her without his Introducer, but it was very difficult..to come Head to Head, or enjoy one of those happy Moments where he might find her alone.

c1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 595 An account of a long discourse..I had head to head with the Baron of Renswoode.

1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 453 Head to head, as the French have it, he was by no means silent.

1906 A. K. Green Woman in Alcove xv. 253 In spite of the cavalier manner with which he [sc. the inspector] had treated my suggestions, he spent a very serious half-hour, head to head with the district attorney.

1986 Times 27 June 9/2 He has never talked to a president head-to-head.

2005 M. M. Westbrook Ghostwriter & Muse 145 We..had a leisurely early dinner. We talked head to head and wiped our tears.

3. In a race or other competition: so as to be a close contest, with no competitor gaining a substantial lead; neck and neck, level. Also in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with

step by step1565

head and girth1796

head-to-head1799

neck and neck1799

1799 Sporting Mag. 13 311/1 The contest here commenced,..the horses never being more than a length asunder, and generally head to head.

1809 M. A. Shee Elements Art ii. 147 Wherever the moderns have had fair play in the race, they have run head to head with their ancient competitors.

1840 J. C. Whyte Hist. Brit. Turf II. i. 12 So close was the contest, that at even a few strides from the ending post, the horses were head to head.

1888 T. H. Taunton Portraits Celebrated Racehorses III. 294 Satirist was now almost head to head with him, and Coronation seemed unable to shake him off.

1902 Ann. Rep. (National Rifle Assoc. Amer.) 79 The two other teams, the Americans and the British,..kept almost head to head in the match.

1918 Mentor July 396/1 The three leading horses were then running head to head.

2000 Black Enterprise Nov. 27/1 With Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush running head-to-head in the polls, the race is pretty much a toss up.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

Involving direct competition or conflict; (also) literal involving the touching or clashing of heads; head-on.

ΚΠ

1852 C. Sinclair Beatrice I. viii. 176 I should think..that our friend, the Bishop of Inverness, could very soon silence Mr. Talbot in a regular head to head argument.

1908 McClure's Mag. Feb. 477/2 We expected the usual head-to-head battle for supremacy, succeeded by a period of peace and quiet.

1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 63 Short range. That's the head-to-head slugging range.

1972 Times 17 Apr. 24/1 Until December the Gallup poll did not even pit McGovern in head-to-head polls with President Nixon and Wallace.

1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams ii. 64 They charge from 20 to 30 feet apart, furious head-to-head crashes that can knock one animal back on its haunches.

2000 N.Y. Times 8 June g10/2 (advt.) Listen and learn as industry leaders shoot-it-out in head-to-head debates.

C. n.

1. A private conversation; = tête-à-tête n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > private conversation

sunder-roundingOE

roundingOE

sunder-speechOE

sunder-rounc1175

tête-à-tête1697

closeting1762

hob-nob1876

head-to-head1884

pillow talk1914

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of

flitec1000

strifea1225

wara1300

pulla1400

lakec1420

contenta1450

stour?c1450

contentiona1500

pingle1543

agony1555

feudc1565

combat1567

skirmish1576

grapple1604

counter-scuffle1628

scuffle1641

agon1649

tug1660

tug of war1677

risse1684

struggle1692

palaver1707

hash1789

warsle1792

scrabble1794

set-to1794

go1823

bucklea1849

wrestle1850

tussle1857

head-to-head1884

scrum1905

battleground1931

shoot-out1953

mud-wrestle1986

1884 ‘A. de Florian’ Holy Blue! iii. 48 At my ease, with..the laughing assurance of an agreeable head-to-head with my amiable and yielding fate, I marched lightly along.

1916 W. R. Thayer Let. 21 Sept. (1926) 285 Excels as a listener..equally good at head-to-heads, square parties, and breakfast banquets.

1997 S. Baxter Titan (2001) 347 Look, I have a head-to-head with Hartle at nine a.m. tomorrow. In my office. I want you here.

2007 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 6 Road experts from Highland Council, the developer and Transport Scotland..went into a hurriedly-convened private head-to-head.

2. Originally U.S. colloquial. A conflict or contest (between two adversaries) at close quarters; a confrontation. Later also more generally: any direct juxtaposition or comparison of two competing individuals, products, etc.rare before late 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of > a hostile encounter

encounter1297

counterc1330

brusha1400

recountering1410

recountera1470

encountering1482

re-encounter1525

re-encountry1569

passage1608

congression?1611

confronta1626

traverse1640

clash1646

congress1646

conjunction1648

head-to-head1899

go-around1912

mano a mano1950

face-off1956

bitchfest1985

1899 Yale Courant 28 Jan. 181 At the crash of glass, the card-players had desisted a moment, to scan the head-to-head at the other table.

1970 Atlantic Nov. 65/2 It [sc. the Sheridan tank] cannot stand against any of the Russian tanks in a head-to-head, and its highly sophisticated mechanisms make it difficult to use in places like jungles or deserts.

1988 Fortnight Jan. 4/3 McCafferty has long launched attacks against the clergy, known to culminate in head-to-heads with bishops on television.

1994 E. Cashmore And there was Telev!s!on ix. 139 Wrestling gave ITV its first major success in a head-to-head with the BBC's sports.

1997 I. Sinclair Lights out for Territory (1998) 157 Atkins and I stood off to watch this amazing head-to-head: Dun..swaying back, away from Home's more animated ripostes.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July iv. 4/5 No one can overlook the importance of those remaining games against the Tigers. ‘Those head-to-heads with Detroit are going to be huge.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	head-to-head
释义	head-to-headadv.adj.n. Brit. /ˌhɛdtəˈhɛd/, U.S. /ˈˌhɛdtəˈhɛd/ Forms: see head n.¹ and to prep. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: head n.¹, to prep. Etymology: < head n.¹ + to prep. + head n.¹ With use with reference to private conversation (sense A. 2 and C. 1) compare earlier tête-à-tête adv. and tête-à-tête n. A. adv. 1. a. So that the heads of two people, animals, etc., touch or are close together, esp. in confrontation or combat; head-on; (more generally) at close quarters. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [adverb] > at close-quarters handlingsa1400 hand by hand?a1439 hand unto handc1540 head-to-head1556 half-sword1589 at the sera1591 half-staff1603 close quarters1809 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 264 An other constellation is there which ioyneth heade to heade with Hercules, and is called of the Greekes, Ophiuchus. 1588 E. Aggas tr. F. de La Noue Politicke & Mil. Disc. xii. 161 I haue shewed with what inconstancie men vse to make quarels without any ground, also with what furie they afterward fight head to head. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion 6 With collars be they yokt, to proue the arme at length, Like Bulls set head to head, with meere delyuer strength. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre vii. 436 The Syracusians..fighting..with their Gallies head to head with those of the Athenians, and prouided with beakes for the purpose. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 The stooping Warriours, aiming Head to Head, Engage their clashing Horns. View more context for this quotation 1785 H. Boyd tr. Dante Inferno I. vii. xix. 285 Now, head to head, their clashing fronts engage Each other, now with lion-ramp they spurn. 1841 R. E. Landor Faith's Fraud iii. iv, in Earl of Brecon 159 Call home thy wits and answer me at once. I hate this butting head to head with questions! 1874 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 470/1 Their tusks clash together, they struggle head to head. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iv. 260 The two nautch girls, who had sunk to the floor and sat huddled against each other, arm in arm, head to head, in a kind of ecstasy, giggled at the wrestler's phrase. 1960 J. Kerouac Lonesome Traveler vii. 155 One splendid woodcarving showing the Last Supper with bunched Apostles grieving head-to-head. 2006 I. J. Newsome & T. J. Pettitt Even More Things about Tommy 22 He and Tommy met head to head at the passenger door. b. figurative (originally U.S.). In direct competition, rivalry, or conflict. Now chiefly in to go head-to-head: to compete directly.rare before mid 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adverb] > manner of competition head-to-head1851 tightly1883 mano a mano1973 1851 Louisville (Kentucky) Daily Jrnl. 19 July 2/1 Mr. Merriweather..called a meeting for himself..and made a speech there... He shrinks from an encounter before the Louisville public hand to hand, or rather head to head, with his powerful antagonist. 1960 Lima (Ohio) News 6 Mar. b5/9 Neither Sen. Ross Pepple nor his primary opponent, Attorney A. Marshall Rodgers, have yet come head-to-head on issues. 1975 W. Ivey in B. C. Malone & J. McCulloh Stars of Country Music 276 Sholes, then a field A&R man for RCA, was seeking a country artist to compete head-to-head with Merle Travis. 1990 P. Auster Music of Chance ii. 33 That's what I want to do. Build up enough cash to buy into that game and go head to head with the best. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 July (Business section) 3 Tesco and Sainsbury's went head to head this weekend with aggressive drives to tempt..consumers into their shops. 2. Face to face; in private or intimate conversation. Cf. tête-à-tête adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > intimately or familiarly > face to face or in private head-to-head1697 tête-à-tête1710 1697 P. Hollingworth tr. C. F. Franckenstein Hist. Intrigues & Gallantries Queen of Sweden 146 He sought for an opportunity to speak to her without his Introducer, but it was very difficult..to come Head to Head, or enjoy one of those happy Moments where he might find her alone. c1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 595 An account of a long discourse..I had head to head with the Baron of Renswoode. 1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 453 Head to head, as the French have it, he was by no means silent. 1906 A. K. Green Woman in Alcove xv. 253 In spite of the cavalier manner with which he [sc. the inspector] had treated my suggestions, he spent a very serious half-hour, head to head with the district attorney. 1986 Times 27 June 9/2 He has never talked to a president head-to-head. 2005 M. M. Westbrook Ghostwriter & Muse 145 We..had a leisurely early dinner. We talked head to head and wiped our tears. 3. In a race or other competition: so as to be a close contest, with no competitor gaining a substantial lead; neck and neck, level. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > keeping pace with step by step1565 head and girth1796 head-to-head1799 neck and neck1799 1799 Sporting Mag. 13 311/1 The contest here commenced,..the horses never being more than a length asunder, and generally head to head. 1809 M. A. Shee Elements Art ii. 147 Wherever the moderns have had fair play in the race, they have run head to head with their ancient competitors. 1840 J. C. Whyte Hist. Brit. Turf II. i. 12 So close was the contest, that at even a few strides from the ending post, the horses were head to head. 1888 T. H. Taunton Portraits Celebrated Racehorses III. 294 Satirist was now almost head to head with him, and Coronation seemed unable to shake him off. 1902 Ann. Rep. (National Rifle Assoc. Amer.) 79 The two other teams, the Americans and the British,..kept almost head to head in the match. 1918 Mentor July 396/1 The three leading horses were then running head to head. 2000 Black Enterprise Nov. 27/1 With Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush running head-to-head in the polls, the race is pretty much a toss up. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Involving direct competition or conflict; (also) literal involving the touching or clashing of heads; head-on. ΚΠ 1852 C. Sinclair Beatrice I. viii. 176 I should think..that our friend, the Bishop of Inverness, could very soon silence Mr. Talbot in a regular head to head argument. 1908 McClure's Mag. Feb. 477/2 We expected the usual head-to-head battle for supremacy, succeeded by a period of peace and quiet. 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 63 Short range. That's the head-to-head slugging range. 1972 Times 17 Apr. 24/1 Until December the Gallup poll did not even pit McGovern in head-to-head polls with President Nixon and Wallace. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams ii. 64 They charge from 20 to 30 feet apart, furious head-to-head crashes that can knock one animal back on its haunches. 2000 N.Y. Times 8 June g10/2 (advt.) Listen and learn as industry leaders shoot-it-out in head-to-head debates. C. n. 1. A private conversation; = tête-à-tête n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > private conversation sunder-roundingOE roundingOE sunder-speechOE sunder-rounc1175 tête-à-tête1697 closeting1762 hob-nob1876 head-to-head1884 pillow talk1914 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of flitec1000 strifea1225 wara1300 pulla1400 lakec1420 contenta1450 stour?c1450 contentiona1500 pingle1543 agony1555 feudc1565 combat1567 skirmish1576 grapple1604 counter-scuffle1628 scuffle1641 agon1649 tug1660 tug of war1677 risse1684 struggle1692 palaver1707 hash1789 warsle1792 scrabble1794 set-to1794 go1823 bucklea1849 wrestle1850 tussle1857 head-to-head1884 scrum1905 battleground1931 shoot-out1953 mud-wrestle1986 1884 ‘A. de Florian’ Holy Blue! iii. 48 At my ease, with..the laughing assurance of an agreeable head-to-head with my amiable and yielding fate, I marched lightly along. 1916 W. R. Thayer Let. 21 Sept. (1926) 285 Excels as a listener..equally good at head-to-heads, square parties, and breakfast banquets. 1997 S. Baxter Titan (2001) 347 Look, I have a head-to-head with Hartle at nine a.m. tomorrow. In my office. I want you here. 2007 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 6 Road experts from Highland Council, the developer and Transport Scotland..went into a hurriedly-convened private head-to-head. 2. Originally U.S. colloquial. A conflict or contest (between two adversaries) at close quarters; a confrontation. Later also more generally: any direct juxtaposition or comparison of two competing individuals, products, etc.rare before late 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of > a hostile encounter encounter1297 counterc1330 brusha1400 recountering1410 recountera1470 encountering1482 re-encounter1525 re-encountry1569 passage1608 congression?1611 confronta1626 traverse1640 clash1646 congress1646 conjunction1648 head-to-head1899 go-around1912 mano a mano1950 face-off1956 bitchfest1985 1899 Yale Courant 28 Jan. 181 At the crash of glass, the card-players had desisted a moment, to scan the head-to-head at the other table. 1970 Atlantic Nov. 65/2 It [sc. the Sheridan tank] cannot stand against any of the Russian tanks in a head-to-head, and its highly sophisticated mechanisms make it difficult to use in places like jungles or deserts. 1988 Fortnight Jan. 4/3 McCafferty has long launched attacks against the clergy, known to culminate in head-to-heads with bishops on television. 1994 E. Cashmore And there was Telev!s!on ix. 139 Wrestling gave ITV its first major success in a head-to-head with the BBC's sports. 1997 I. Sinclair Lights out for Territory (1998) 157 Atkins and I stood off to watch this amazing head-to-head: Dun..swaying back, away from Home's more animated ripostes. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July iv. 4/5 No one can overlook the importance of those remaining games against the Tigers. ‘Those head-to-heads with Detroit are going to be huge.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.n.1556
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