header

Plural: headers

Noun

• A machine for harvesting grain; a diving or striking motion with the head.
• a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
• horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
• brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
• a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
• a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
• (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
• a headlong jump (or fall)
  • "he took a header into the shrubbery"
• The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
• Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
• Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
• A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
• The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
• Clipping of header file.
• the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
• 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).
• A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
• A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
• The act of hitting the ball with the head.
• Someone who heads the ball.
• A headlong fall, jump or dive.
• A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
• A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
• The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
• One who puts a head on something.
• A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).

Verb

• To strike (a ball) with one's head.

Examples

• Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.
• His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
• His opponent played HEADER, leaving him with a tricky set of tiles for his turn.
• If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
• Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
• That column should have the header "payment status".
• The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.
• The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
• The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
• They fed the bale into the header.
• This wall has four header courses.
• Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

Synonyms

cope, coping, head, heading, lintel, bonder