English dictionary
header
nounPronunciation
ˈhɛdə
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a headlong jump (or fall)
noun
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
noun
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
noun
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
noun
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
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- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
Example sentences
he took a header into the shrubbery
the heading seemed to have little to do with the text