Head vs. Point

Headnoun

(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

Headnoun

(people) To do with heads.

Headnoun

(animals) To do with heads.

Headnoun

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

Headnoun

The end of a table.

Headnoun

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

Headnoun

The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

Headnoun

(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

Headnoun

Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

Headnoun

(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

Headnoun

(music) The headstock of a guitar.

Headnoun

(nautical) A leading component.

Headnoun

(British) A headland.

Headnoun

A leader or expert.

Headnoun

The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

Headnoun

Leader; chief; mastermind.

Headnoun

A headmaster or headmistress.

Headnoun

A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

Headnoun

A significant or important part.

Headnoun

A beginning or end, a protuberance.

Headnoun

A component.

Headnoun

Headway; progress.

Headnoun

Topic; subject.

Headnoun

(uncountable) Denouement; crisis.

Headnoun

(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

Headnoun

A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

Headnoun

The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

Headnoun

More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

Headnoun

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

Headnoun

(slang) The glans penis.

Headnoun

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Headnoun

(obsolete) Power; armed force.

Headadjective

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Headadjective

Foremost in rank or importance.

Headadjective

Placed at the top or the front.

Headadjective

Coming from in front.

Headverb

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

Headverb

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

Headverb

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

Headverb

(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.

Headverb

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

Headverb

(intransitive) To form a head.

Headverb

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

Headverb

To cut off the top of; to lop off.

Headverb

(obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.

Headverb

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

Headverb

To set on the head.

Headnoun

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

Headnoun

The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

Headnoun

The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

Headnoun

The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.

Headnoun

The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.

Headnoun

Each one among many; an individual; - often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.

Headnoun

The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.

Headnoun

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

Headnoun

A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.

Headnoun

A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

Headnoun

Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.

Headnoun

Power; armed force.

Headnoun

A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.

Headnoun

An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

Headnoun

A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

Headnoun

The antlers of a deer.

Headnoun

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

Headnoun

Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Headadjective

Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

Headverb

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.

Headverb

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

Headverb

To behead; to decapitate.

Headverb

To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

Headverb

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.

Headverb

To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

Headverb

To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

Headverb

To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

Headverb

To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

Headnoun

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains;

Headnoun

a single domestic animal;

Headnoun

that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;

Headnoun

a person who is in charge;

Headnoun

the front of a military formation or procession;

Headnoun

the pressure exerted by a fluid;

Headnoun

the top of something;

Headnoun

the source of water from which a stream arises;

Headnoun

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

Headnoun

the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

Headnoun

the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head;

Headnoun

a dense clusters of flowers or foliage;

Headnoun

the educator who has executive authority for a school;

Headnoun

an individual person;

Headnoun

a user of (usually soft) drugs;

Headnoun

a rounded compact mass;

Headnoun

the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container;

Headnoun

the part in the front or nearest the viewer;

Headnoun

a difficult juncture;

Headnoun

forward movement;

Headnoun

a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;

Headnoun

the subject matter at issue;

Headnoun

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

Headnoun

the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint;

Headnoun

that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

Headnoun

(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

Headnoun

(usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head;

Headnoun

the striking part of a tool;

Headnoun

(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

Headnoun

a projection out from one end;

Headnoun

a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

Headnoun

oral-genital stimulation;

Headverb

to go or travel towards;

Headverb

be in charge of;

Headverb

travel in front of; go in advance of others;

Headverb

be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel;

Headverb

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Headverb

take its rise;

Headverb

be in the front of or on top of;

Headverb

form a head or come or grow to a head;

Headverb

remove the head of;

Headnoun

the upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Headnoun

the head regarded as the location of intellect, imagination, and memory

Headnoun

an aptitude for or tolerance of

Headnoun

a headache, especially one resulting from intoxication.

Headnoun

the height or length of a head as a measure

Headnoun

the side of a coin bearing the image of a head (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner)

Headnoun

the antlers of a deer

Headnoun

a thing resembling a head either in form or in relation to a whole.

Headnoun

the cutting, striking, or operational end of a tool, weapon, or mechanism.

Headnoun

the flattened or knobbed end of a nail, pin, screw, or match.

Headnoun

the ornamented top of a pillar or column.

Headnoun

a compact mass of leaves or flowers at the top of a stem, especially a capitulum

Headnoun

the edible leafy part at the top of the stem of such green vegetables as cabbage and lettuce.

Headnoun

the front, forward, or upper part or end of something.

Headnoun

the upper end of a table or bed

Headnoun

the upper horizontal part of a window frame or door frame.

Headnoun

the flat end of a cask or drum.

Headnoun

the front of a queue or procession

Headnoun

the top of a page.

Headnoun

short for headline

Headnoun

the top of a flight of stairs or steps.

Headnoun

the foam on top of a glass of beer, or the cream on the top of milk.

Headnoun

the source of a river or stream.

Headnoun

the end of a lake or inlet at which a river enters.

Headnoun

a promontory

Headnoun

the top of a ship's mast.

Headnoun

the bows of a ship.

Headnoun

short for cylinder head

Headnoun

a person in charge of something; a director or leader

Headnoun

short for headmaster, headmistress, or head teacher

Headnoun

a person considered as a numerical unit

Headnoun

a number of cattle or game as specified

Headnoun

a component in an audio, video, or information system by which information is transferred from an electrical signal to the recording medium, or vice versa.

Headnoun

the part of a record player that holds the playing cartridge and stylus.

Headnoun

short for printhead

Headnoun

a body of water kept at a particular height in order to provide a supply at sufficient pressure

Headnoun

the pressure exerted by a head of water or by a confined body of steam

Headnoun

a toilet on a ship or boat

Headnoun

the word that governs all the other words in a phrase in which it is used, having the same grammatical function as the whole phrase.

Headnoun

a superficial deposit of rock fragments, formed at the edge of an ice sheet by repeated freezing and thawing and then moved downhill.

Headnoun

a group of pheasants

Headadjective

chief; principal

Headverb

be in the leading position on

Headverb

be in charge of

Headverb

give a title or caption to

Headverb

move in a specified direction

Headverb

appear to be moving inevitably towards (something, especially something undesirable)

Headverb

direct or steer in a specified direction

Headverb

shoot or pass (the ball) with the head

Headverb

lop off the upper part or branches of (a plant or tree)

Headverb

(of a lettuce or cabbage) form a head.

Head

The head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste, respectively. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size.

Pointnoun

A discrete division of something.

Pointnoun

An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.

Pointnoun

A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.

Pointnoun

(archaic) Condition, state.

Pointnoun

A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.

Pointnoun

A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.

Pointnoun

A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.

Pointnoun

(obsolete) The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.

Pointnoun

(obsolete) A tiny amount of time; a moment.

Pointnoun

A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.

Pointnoun

A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.

Pointnoun

A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.

Pointnoun

(music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.

Pointnoun

(by extension) A note; a tune.

Pointnoun

A distinguishing quality or characteristic.

Pointnoun

Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.

Pointnoun

(now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.

Pointnoun

Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.

Pointnoun

A unit of scoring in a game or competition.

Pointnoun

(mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).

Pointnoun

(economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.

Pointnoun

(typography) a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).

Pointnoun

(UK) An electric power socket.

Pointnoun

A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.

Pointnoun

(UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.

Pointnoun

A sharp extremity.

Pointnoun

The sharp tip of an object.

Pointnoun

Any projecting extremity of an object.

Pointnoun

An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.

Pointnoun

(backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.

Pointnoun

A peninsula or promontory.

Pointnoun

The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.

Pointnoun

Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.

Pointnoun

(nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.

Pointnoun

Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.

Pointnoun

A railroad switch.

Pointnoun

An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.

Pointnoun

A tine or snag of an antler.

Pointnoun

(fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.

Pointnoun

(heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.

Pointnoun

(nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.

Pointnoun

(historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.

Pointnoun

Lace worked by the needle.

Pointnoun

An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

Pointnoun

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

Pointnoun

(falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.

Pointnoun

The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.

Pointnoun

The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.

Pointnoun

A vaccine point.

Pointnoun

In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

Pointnoun

(cricket) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.

Pointnoun

The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.

Pointnoun

(baseball) The position of the pitcher and catcher.

Pointnoun

(hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.

Pointverb

(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

Pointverb

(intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

Pointverb

(intransitive) To face in a particular direction.

Pointverb

(transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.

Pointverb

To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

Pointverb

(intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.

Pointverb

To repair mortar.

Pointverb

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

Pointverb

(stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

Pointverb

(transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

Pointverb

To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.

Pointverb

(transitive) To mark with diacritics.

Pointverb

(dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

Pointverb

To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

Pointverb

To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

Pointverb

To sail close to the wind.

Pointverb

To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

Pointverb

To approximate to the surface; to head.

Pointverb

(obsolete) To appoint.

Pointverb

(dated) To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.

Pointverb

To appoint.

Pointverb

To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.

Pointverb

To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.

Pointverb

Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.

Pointverb

To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.

Pointverb

To mark (a text, as in Arabic or Hebrew) with vowel points; - also called vocalize.

Pointverb

To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.

Pointverb

To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.

Pointverb

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

Pointverb

To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

Pointverb

To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; - with at.

Pointverb

To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

Pointverb

To approximate to the surface; to head; - said of an abscess.

Pointnoun

That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.

Pointnoun

An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; - called also pointer.

Pointnoun

Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.

Pointnoun

The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.

Pointnoun

An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, - sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.

Pointnoun

An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.

Pointnoun

A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.

Pointnoun

Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints.

Pointnoun

That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.

Pointnoun

Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.

Pointnoun

A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.

Pointnoun

A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time

Pointnoun

A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.

Pointnoun

One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

Pointnoun

One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.

Pointnoun

A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.

Pointnoun

Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.

Pointnoun

A switch.

Pointnoun

An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

Pointnoun

A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.

Pointnoun

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.

Pointnoun

A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.

Pointnoun

A tyne or snag of an antler.

Pointnoun

One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

Pointnoun

A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.

Pointnoun

A pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter; - called also vaccine point.

Pointnoun

One of the raised dots used in certain systems of printing and writing for the blind. The first practical system was that devised by Louis Braille in 1829, and still used in Europe (see Braille). Two modifications of this are current in the United States: New York point founded on three bases of equidistant points arranged in two lines (viz., : :: :::), and a later improvement, American Braille, embodying the Braille base (:::) and the New-York-point principle of using the characters of few points for the commonest letters.

Pointnoun

In various games, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player himself;

Pointnoun

a geometric element that has position but no extension;

Pointnoun

the precise location of something; a spatially limited location;

Pointnoun

a brief version of the essential meaning of something;

Pointnoun

a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;

Pointnoun

an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;

Pointnoun

an instant of time;

Pointnoun

the object of an activity;

Pointnoun

a V shape;

Pointnoun

a very small circular shape;

Pointnoun

the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest;

Pointnoun

a promontory extending out into a large body of water;

Pointnoun

a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list;

Pointnoun

a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect

Pointnoun

an outstanding characteristic;

Pointnoun

sharp end;

Pointnoun

any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass;

Pointnoun

a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

Pointnoun

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;

Pointnoun

a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;

Pointnoun

the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp point

Pointnoun

a distinguishing or individuating characteristic;

Pointnoun

the gun muzzle's direction;

Pointnoun

a wall socket

Pointnoun

a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs

Pointverb

indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively;

Pointverb

be oriented;

Pointverb

direct into a position for use;

Pointverb

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Pointverb

be a signal for or a symptom of;

Pointverb

sail close to the wind

Pointverb

mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics

Pointverb

mark with diacritics;

Pointverb

mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes

Pointverb

be positionable in a specified manner;

Pointverb

intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;

Pointverb

give a point to;

Pointverb

repair the joints of bricks;