defterdar

Phonetic: "/hɛd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

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

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

Definition: The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

Example: What does it say at the head of the page?

Definition: (social, metonymy) A leader or expert.

Definition: A significant or important part.

Definition: Headway; progress.

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

Definition: Topic; subject.

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

Definition: Denouement; crisis.

Example: These isses are going to come to a head today.

Definition: (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

Definition: Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

Example: She gave great head.

Definition: The glans penis.

Definition: A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Definition: Power; armed force.

Phonetic: "/hɛd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To be in command of. (See also head up.)

Example: Who heads the board of trustees?

Definition: To come at the beginning of; to commence.

Example: A group of clowns headed the procession.

Definition: To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

Definition: To move in a specified direction.

Example: How does the ship head?

Definition: To remove the head from a fish.

Example: The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

Definition: To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

Definition: To form a head.

Example: This kind of cabbage heads early.

Definition: To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

Example: to head a nail

Definition: To cut off the top of; to lop off.

Example: to head trees

Definition: To behead; to decapitate.

Definition: To go in front of.

Example: to head a drove of cattle

Definition: To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

Example: The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

Definition: (by extension) To check or restrain.

Definition: To set on the head.

Example: to head a cask

Phonetic: "/hɛd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/faɪˈnænʃəl/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Related to finances.

Example: For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.

Definition: Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

Example: Jerry is a financial member of the club.

Phonetic: "/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A part, portion, or subdivision.

Definition: A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

Example: Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.

Definition: A subdivision of an organization.

Definition: A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.

Definition: A military subdivision of a country

Example: the Department of the Potomac

Definition: Act of departing; departure.