From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heading
n 1: 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: heading, header, head]
2: the direction or path along which something moves or along
which it lies [syn: bearing, heading, aim]
3: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
"they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: drift,
heading, gallery]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Heading.]
1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to
lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army,
an expedition, or a riot. --Dryden.
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2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to
head a nail. --Spenser.
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3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak.
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4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
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5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder
or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to
head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a
ship.
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6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
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To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer
heads off a thief who is escaping. "We'll head them off at
the pass."
To head up,
(a) to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
(b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of
investigators.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Heading \Head"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads;
formation of a head.
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2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a
paper.
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3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
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4. (Mining, tunneling)
(a) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; the vein above a
drift.
(b) The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face
at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from
which the work is advanced.
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5. (Sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line
of stitch.
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6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented
outward. --Knight.
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Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of
headers. See Header, n. 3
(a) .
Heading joint.
(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at
right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same
course.
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