header

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

Noun

  1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
    • If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.

    Coordinate Terms: body footer table

  2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
    • Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

    Synonyms: head heading

  3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
    • That column should have the header "payment status".
  4. A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
    • Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
  5. The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
    • The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
  6. Clipping of header file.
  7. the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
    • The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

    Coordinate Terms: body payload

  8. A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
    • This wall has four header courses.

    Synonyms: bonder coping cope

    Coordinate Terms: stretcher

  9. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.

    Synonyms: lintel

  10. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
    • They fed the bale into the header.
  11. The act of hitting the ball with the head.
    • His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
    • The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in. - 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC...
  12. Someone who heads the ball.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English header From head + -er.

Forms

headers hdr

Derived

double-header header guard headerless header tank nail header new-header pin header preheader pseudoheader quadruple-header reheader subheader table header triple-header

Verb

  1. To strike (a ball) with one's head.

Forms

headers headering headered hdr