Head (disambiguation)
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The head is the part of an animal that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose and mouth.
Head may also refer to:
Science
- Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
- Head (geography) or headland, a type of peninsula
- Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
- Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposits
- Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
- High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
Technology
- Head (vessel), an end caps on a pressure vessel
- Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
- Hydraulic head, a specific measurement of water pressure
- Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
- Static head
- Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe
- Velocity head
- Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
- Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
- Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system
Computer programming
- <head>, a HTML document structure element
- HEAD, a HTTP request method
- head (Unix), a UNIX command
Maritime
- Head (watercraft), a toilet on a watercraft
- Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
- Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
Other common meanings
- Heads, the obverse of a coin
- Head (beer), a frothy emulsion of liquid and carbon dioxide at the top of beer
- Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
- Head, slang for oral sex
Companies and brands
- Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of tennis, ski and other sports equipment
- Head Entertainment, a chain of retail stores
- Head Shampoo, one of the first mass-market products which came about during the organic products movement beginning in the early 1970s
Entertainment
- The Head, an animated television series
- Head (film), a 1968 film starring The Monkees
- "Head" (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of Blackadder
- Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe
Music
- Head (music), a main theme in jazz
- Head (band), an English rock band
- Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head
- Head (The Jesus Lizard album), 1990
- Head (The Monkees album), the soundtrack to the Monkees' only theatrical release, Head
- Heads (Bob James album), 1977
- Heads (Osibisa album), 1972
- "Head" (Prince song)
- Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), a track from The Cooper Temple Clause's third album Make This Your Own
- "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
- "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
- "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath, Between, Beyond
- "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
- "Head", a song by Lotion
- "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
Other uses
- Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
- Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
- Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
See also
- Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
- Headstock, a part of an instrument
- Header (disambiguation)
- Heading (disambiguation)
- Headed (disambiguation)
- Head (wrestling)
- Heads in heraldry
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