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
- Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
- 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 race or crew race, time-trial rowing competition & related events called 'Head of the __ River'
- Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
- Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
- Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
People
- Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
- Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
- Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
- Head of the class, top student; as in "go to the head of the class"
- Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
- Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
- Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
Other common meanings
- Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
- Head of steam, emitted from a steam locomotive & namesake of a railway museum in England
- Head, the flat end of a barrel
- Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
- Head (beer), a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
- Head, slang for oral sex
- Head honcho, slang for person-in-charge & a nickname for Slacker (producer)
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), soundtrack of the movie
- Heads (Bob James album), 1977
- Heads (Osibisa album), 1972
- "Head" (Prince song)
- Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), track from 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 UK
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