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header (hed′ər)
noun
- a person or device that puts heads on pins, nails, rivets, etc.
- ☆ a machine that takes off the heads of grain and sends them up an inclined plane into a wagon
- a pipe, tube, etc. that brings together other pipes to direct the flow of a fluid through them, as in an exhaust system
- in word processing, a line or lines of text, typically consisting of the topic, date, page number, etc., printed at the top of each page of a document
- Informal a headlong fall or dive
- Carpentry a wooden beam, as in flooring, placed between two long beams with the ends of short beams resting against it
- Masonry a brick or building stone laid across the thickness of a wall so that a short end is exposed in the face of the wall
- Soccer a shot or pass made by hitting the ball with one's head, esp. with one's forehead
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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header Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- yard: He missed a sitter of a header from six yards.
Converse of object
- glance: His impact was almost instant, as he twice put Adrian Allen through with two neat glancing headers.
Adjective modifier
- downward: Jimmy Rimmer produced an outstanding save from a downward header from a corner in the last minute of the Bristol City match in 1985.
Modifies a noun
- file: The first issue concerns what you can put into header files.
Noun used with modifier
- close-range: Three minutes into injury time Jason Jones magnificently turned a close-range header away for a corner.
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