English Dictionary

head

/ˈhɛd/

verb

(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

I need to head to the store to buy some groceries.

意味（1）

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

Who heads the board of trustees?

意味（2）

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

A group of clowns headed the procession.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

We are going to head up North for our holiday.

意味（5）

(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

意味（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,

意味（7）

(intransitive) To form a head.

This kind of cabbage heads early.

意味（8）

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

to head a nail

意味（9）

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

to head trees

意味（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.

意味（11）

To go in front of.

to head a drove of cattle

意味（12）

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

The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

意味（13）

(by extension) To check or restrain.

意味（14）

To set on the head.

to head a cask