header
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕd'ər
ipa: /ˈhɛdɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɛdə/
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: headers
form: hdr
Etymology: From head + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
coordinate_terms: body
footer
table
glosses: The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
examples: text: Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
synonyms: head
heading
glosses: Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
examples: text: That column should have the header "payment status".
glosses: Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
examples: text: Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
glosses: A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
examples: text: The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Clipping of header file.
examples: text: The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: body
payload
glosses: the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
examples: text: This wall has four header courses.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
synonyms: bonder
coping
cope
coordinate_terms: stretcher
glosses: 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).
synonyms: lintel
glosses: A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
examples: text: They fed the bale into the header.
glosses: A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
examples: text: His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
text: 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.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The act of hitting the ball with the head.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Someone who heads the ball.
examples: text: The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.
text: "When the rest are in, you see one or two shiverin' on the bank, envyin' the others that have taken the plunge. It's the last that have the worst of it. I'm all for a header and have done with it."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A headlong fall, jump or dive.
glosses: A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
examples: text: Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.
glosses: A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
glosses: The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
glosses: One who puts a head on something.
glosses: A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
Derived terms: double-header
header guard
headerless
nail header
new-header
pin header
preheader
pseudoheader
quadruple-header
reheader
subheader
triple-header