Head (disambiguation)

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In anatomy, the Head of an animal is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Metaphorically,"Head" may refer to a person who is a leader, supervisor or the like, such as the head of a department in a company , or in a school, college or university, the head of an institution or organization, or the head of state of a country or other sovereign entity.

Head may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
• Head stock, a musical instrument part
• An amplifier head, a form of guitar amplifier
• Head (linguistics), the main part of a phrase or compound
• Head (geological), recent near surface deposits of uncertain and often heterogeneous origin
• head (Unix), a Unix command that provides the first few lines of a file
• Head (vessel), the end caps on a pressure vessel
• Hydraulic head, the difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure at the lower point

By analogy, other forms of energy can be expressed in terms of 'head' units, e.g:

• velocity head
• pressure head

• Cylinder head, the part of an engine over the pistons and cylinders
• Disk read-and-write head, the mechanism responsible for reading and writing magnetic media
• Recording head, the electromagnetic mechanism that translates magnetic and electrical signals to tape
• High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD), a division under the American Astronomical Society

Marine

• Head (sailing), a sail's uppermost corner or edge
• Head (watercraft), a toilet or latrine of a marine vessel
• Head sail, a jib, spinnaker, or any other sail set forward of the foremost mast

Music, film, television

• Head (music), the repeated, non-improvised section of a jazz composition that bookends individual solo passages
• Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), a song by The Cooper Temple Clause
• Head (The Jesus Lizard album), the first full album by The Jesus Lizard
• Head (band), the solo project of former Korn guitarist, Brian Welch
• Head (British band), an English rock band of the 1980s
• "Head" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
• Head (film), a comic film starring The Monkees
• Head (The Monkees album), the soundtrack to the film by The Monkees
• Head, a song by Static-X from Beneath, Between, Beyond
• Head (Prince song), a song by Prince from Dirty Mind
• A song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
• "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
• Drumhead, a membrane on a drum that is hit to create percussive sounds
• Brian Welch, known by the pseudonym "Head", former guitarist of Grammy-award winning band Korn
• The Head, an animated television series on MTV.

Other

• Head (beer), the frothy emulsion of liquid and carbon dioxide at the top of beer
• Head, a member of the drug subculture.
• Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
• Fellatio and Cunnilingus are also known as "giving head"
• Concurrent Versions System HEAD
• Head (wrestling), Al Snow's mannequin head character
• Heads, the obverse side of a coin
• HEAD, an HTTP request method
• Head Shampoo, an all-natural shampoo first made popular in the early 1970s
• Head teacher (headmaster or headmistress), sometimes called "the head"
• Glans penis, a part of the penis that is colloquially called the "head" in humans

[edit] People with the surname Head

• Anthony Head (born 1954), English actor and musician
• Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head (1906–1983), British Member of Parliament, peer and statesman.
• Edith Head, Hollywood costumer of the mid-20th century
• Frederick Waldegrave Head (1874–1941), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
• Henry Head (1861-1940), English neurologist
• Murray Head (born 1946), British actor and singer
• Luther Head, NBA basketball player
• James W. Head III, notable American biologist and consultant for Newton's Apple

[edit] See Also

• Head Surname DNA Project
• tête, head in French, disambiguation page