| 单词 | head |
| 释义 | head (once / 9 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4n 5n On a human body, the head is the part with your skull, brain, eyes, ears, and mouth. Nod your head if you understand which part of your body includes your head. In music, the head of a drum is a membrane that stretches over the drum's shell. When you strike the head with sticks or brushes, you can create rhythms. A person who is in charge of a group of people is also called a head. The principal is the head of the school. As a verb, head can also mean to be in charge of or to move in a particular direction. WORD FAMILYhead: forehead, headed, header, headful, heading, headless, headlike, heads, headship, heady, overhead, subhead+/forehead: foreheads/headed: headeder, headedest, headedly, unheaded/header: headers/heading: headings, subheading/headship: headships/heady: headier, headiest, headily/overhead: overheads/subhead: subheads/subheading: subheadings USAGE EXAMPLESGOP Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, head of the Ways and Means Committee, insists Republicans won’t be deterred by the politics. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) “Some people say that deep water is finished,” BP’s head of exploration and production Bernard Looney said in a presentation this summer. Wall Street Journal(Dec 01, 2016) The head of the English soccer players’ union last week said that at least 20 more former players had come forward, many of them privately. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains he stuck his head out the window Syn|Hypo|Hyper caput human head the head of a human being bulletheada head shaped like a bullet attic, bean, bonce, dome, noggin, noodleinformal terms for a human head external body part any body part visible externally 2n 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 Hyper linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length 3n that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason I couldn't get his words out of my head Syn|Hypo|Hyper brain, mind, nous, psyche noddle an informal British expression for head or mind tabula rasaa young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke) ego(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind unconscious, unconscious mindthat part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware subconscious, subconscious mindpsychic activity just below the level of awareness cognition, knowledge, noesis the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning 4n a person who is in charge the head of the whole operation Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper chief, top dog Haman (Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them Sir Thomas Stamford RafflesBritish colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826) Cesar RitzSwiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918) Petrus Stuyvesantthe last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672) Ahmed Zoki YamaniSaudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930) Albert Gore Jr.Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) administrator, executive someone who manages a government agency or department administrator, decision makersomeone who administers a business capothe head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate department headthe head of a department don, fatherthe head of an organized crime family general, superior generalthe head of a religious order or congregation general managerthe highest ranking manager grand dragona high ranking person in the Ku Klux Klan head of householdthe head of a household or family or tribe secretarya person who is head of an administrative department of government academic administratoran administrator in a college or university commissionera government administrator director, manager, managing directorsomeone who controls resources and expenditures DCI, Director of Central Intelligencethe head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency executive, executive directora person responsible for the administration of a business hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelmanan owner or manager of hotels land agenta person who administers a landed estate materfamilias, matriarcha female head of a family or tribe paterfamilias, patriarchthe male head of family or tribe prefecta chief officer or chief magistrate Attorney General, US Attorney General, United States Attorney Generalthe person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department Agriculture Secretary, Secretary of Agriculturethe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Agriculture Commerce Secretary, Secretary of Commercethe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Commerce Defense Secretary, Secretary of Defensethe person who holds the secretaryship of the Defense Department Education Secretary, Secretary of Educationthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education Energy Secretary, Secretary of Energythe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Energy Secretary of Health and Human Servicesthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary of Housing and Urban Developmentthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Labor Secretary, Secretary of Laborthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Labor Secretary of Statethe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of State Interior Secretary, Secretary of the Interiorthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury Secretarythe person who holds the secretaryship of the Treasury Department Secretary of Transportation, Transportation Secretarythe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Transportation Secretary of Veterans Affairsthe person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Generala person who is a chief administrator (as of the United Nations) security directorhead of a private security force working for a business or industry triumvirone of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome undersecretarya secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government vice chancellora deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others 5n the educator who has executive authority for a school Syn|Hypo|Hyper head teacher, principal, school principal chancellor the honorary or titular head of a university headmaster, master, schoolmasterpresiding officer of a school headmistressa woman headmaster housemasterteacher in charge of a school boardinghouse educator, pedagog, pedagogue someone who educates young people 6n an individual person tickets are $5 per head Hyper individual a single organism 7n a user of (usually soft) drugs the office was full of secret heads Hypo|Hyper acid head someone who takes LSD hash heada user of hashish pill heada consumer of amphetamine pills potheadsomeone who smokes marijuana habitually drug user, substance abuser, user a person who takes drugs 8n a single domestic animal 200 head of cattle Hyper domestic animal, domesticated animal any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment 9n (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head call heads or tails! Ant|Hyper tail (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head obverse the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design 10v be in charge of Who is heading this project? Syn|Hypo|Hyper lead chair, chairman act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university captainbe the captain of a sports team spearheadbe the leader of take charge, take control, take holdassume control move in onseize control of direct be in charge of 11v be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel This student heads the class Syn|Hyper head up lead travel in front of; go in advance of others be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 12v direct the course; determine the direction of travelling Syn|Hypo|Hyper channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer dock maneuver into a dock sheercause to sheer pull oversteer a vehicle to the side of the road helmbe at or take the helm of crabdirect (an aircraft) into a crosswind navigatedirect carefully and safely stand outsteer away from shore, of ships starboardturn to the right, of helms or rudders connconduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane navigate, pilotact as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance canalise, canalize, channeldirect the flow of corner, treeforce a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape parkmaneuver a vehicle into a parking space dry-dock, drydockmaneuver (a ship) into a drydock astrogateguide in interplanetary travel angle-parkpark at an angle parallel-parkpark directly behind another vehicle double-parkpark a vehicle alongside another command, control exercise authoritative control or power over 13v remove the head of 2head the fish Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 1n the top of something the head of the stairs the head of the page the head of the list Ant|Hyper foot the lower part of anything top the upper part of anything 2n the part in the front or nearest the viewer he was at the head of the column Syn|Hyper forefront forepart, front, front end the side that is forward or prominent 3n the front of a military formation or procession the head of the column advanced boldly they were at the head of the attack Ant|Hyper rear the back of a military formation or procession formation an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit 4n forward movement Syn|Hyper headway advance, progress, progression a movement forward 5n a projection out from one end "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin Hypo|Hyper pinhead the head of a pin projection any structure that branches out from a central support 6n a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer Syn|Hyper point mark a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) 7n the striking part of a tool the head of the hammer Hypo|Hyper club head, club-head, clubhead, golf-club head (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball hammerheadthe striking part of a hammer striker the part of a mechanical device that strikes something 8n the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint the head of the humerus Hyper anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 9n that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves Hyper anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 10n the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) Hyper peak, point, tip a V shape 11n a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper foreland, headland, promontory Cape Horn a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego) Rock of Gibraltarlocation of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules Cape Hatterasa promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina Cape Canaverala sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight Cape Sablea promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia Jebel Musaa promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules mull a term used in Scottish names of promontories pointa promontory extending out into a large body of water elevation, natural elevation a raised or elevated geological formation 12n the source of water from which a stream arises they tracked him back toward the head of the stream Syn|Hyper fountainhead, headspring beginning, origin, root, rootage, source the place where something begins, where it springs into being 13n a rounded compact mass the head of a comet Hyper object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow 14n a dense cluster of flowers or foliage a head of cauliflower a head of lettuce Syn|Hyper capitulum plant organ a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus 15n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper header, heading crosshead, crossheading a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text headline, newspaper headlinethe heading or caption of a newspaper article lemmathe heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry rubrica title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type running head, running headlinea heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book subhead, subheadinga heading of a subdivision of a text rubric, statute title, titlea heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with running titlethe title (or a shortened title) of a book used as a running head drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped linea headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right screamera sensational newspaper headline banner, streamera newspaper headline that runs across the full page titlea general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work line text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen 16n the subject matter at issue under the head of minor Roman poets Syn|Hypo|Hyper question problem a question raised for consideration or solution matter of fact, question of facta disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide matter of law, question of lawa disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, teasera particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution casea problem requiring investigation homework problema problem that students are assigned to do outside of class brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma, riddlea difficult problem poser, sticker, stumper, toughiea particularly difficult or baffling question or problem Gordian knotany very difficult problem; insoluble in its own terms koana paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning pons asinoruma problem that severely tests the ability of an inexperienced person rebusa puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words subject, theme, topic the subject matter of a conversation or discussion 17n 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 Hyper foam, froth a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid 18n the pressure exerted by a fluid a head of steam Hyper force per unit area, pressure, pressure level the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) 19n (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk Syn|Hyper coil reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit 20n a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum Syn|Hyper drumhead membrane a thin pliable sheet of material 21n a difficult juncture matters came to a head yesterday Syn|Hyper pass, straits juncture, occasion an event that occurs at a critical time 22v be in the front of or on top of The list was headed by the name of the president Hypo|Hyper surmount be on top of crownform the topmost part of pinnaclesurmount with a pinnacle lie be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position 23v travel in front of; go in advance of others The procession was headed by John Syn|Hypo|Hyper lead head up be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel draw away move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race lead, precede move ahead (of others) in time or space 24v to go or travel towards where is she heading We were headed for the mountains Hypo|Hyper make, take head into a specified direction continue, go forward, proceed move ahead; travel onward in time or space 25v form a head or come or grow to a head The wheat headed early this year Hyper form assume a form or shape 26v take its rise 3These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas Hyper arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise come into existence; take on form or shape n oral stimulation of the genitals 4they say he gives good head Hyper perversion, sexual perversion an aberrant sexual practice; n (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship 5Hyper bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet a room or building equipped with one or more toilets n (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent Syn|Hyper head word word a unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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