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Source Word

head

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈhɛd/

Verb

transitive intransitive obsolete broadly

(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.) / (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence. / (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

Japanese Meaning

率いる / 先頭に立つ、先頭で始める / 頭で（ボールなどを）打つ

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She will head the committee next year.

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彼女は来年その委員会を率いるでしょう。

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Sense（1）

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

Who heads the board of trustees?

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.

A group of clowns headed the procession.

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

Sense（4）

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

We are going to head up North for our holiday.

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Sense（5）

(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

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Sense（6）

(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,

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Sense（7）

(intransitive) To form a head.

This kind of cabbage heads early.

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Sense（8）

(transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

to head a nail

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Sense（9）

(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.

to head trees

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Sense（10）

(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.

I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.

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