header - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'header' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Header

[ n.]

- One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
- One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
- A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
- In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
- A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
- A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.

Meaning of 'header' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . header

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a headlong jump (or fall)

Example in sentence:

he took a header into the shrubbery

Meaning (2):
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

Example in sentence:

the heading seemed to have little to do with the text

Nearby Words:

head head gear head-cheese head-hunter head-lugged headache headachy headband headbeard headborough

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