HEADER (header)

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Irregular inflected form: header   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does header mean? 

• HEADER (noun)
  The noun HEADER has 7 senses:

1. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

2. horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

3. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

4. 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

5. a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon

6. (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head

7. a headlong jump (or fall)

  Familiarity information: HEADER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

head; header; heading

Context example:

the heading seemed to have little to do with the text

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "header"):

crosshead; crossheading (a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text)

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

lemma (the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry)

rubric (a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type)

running head; running headline (a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book)

subhead; subheading (a heading of a subdivision of a text)

rubric; statute title; title (a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with)

Derivation:

head (be in the front of or on top of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

header; lintel

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cope; coping; header

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

brick (rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material)

Holonyms ("header" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

harvester; reaper (farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Domain category:

association football; soccer (a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A headlong jump (or fall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he took a header into the shrubbery

Hypernyms ("header" is a kind of...):

jump; jumping (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground)

 Context examples 

A header concept for the various measurement units based on the foot.

(Foot Unit of Length, NCI Thesaurus)

Men had an average of 44 headers in two weeks and women had an average of 27.

(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A header concept for chemicals that are the building blocks of inherited genetic information.

(Nucleic Acids, Nucleosides, and Nucleotides, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI term type designation for a header term.

(HD Term Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A header concept for the various measurement units based on inches.

(Inch Unit of Length, NCI Thesaurus)

A combination of Web service elements that define the address for a resource in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) header.

(Endpoint Reference, NCI Thesaurus)

Each header tag is one such value.

(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)

A header term that encompasses the various cerebral fissure terms.

(Cerebral Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)

A header term that encompasses the various cerebral sulcus terms.

(Cerebral Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

An organizational header for concepts representing mostly abstract entities.

(Conceptual Entity, NCI Thesaurus)