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noun
- presiding officer of a school
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
adj
verb
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
noun
- to a teacher.
- to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
- to a superior military officer.
- A man of a higher rank or position.
- A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
- A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
- term of address for a man
verb
noun
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
noun
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- The members of a profession.
- A division of a university.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- (Often in the plural): An ability, power, or skill.
- (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
noun
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- a rod carried as a symbol
- (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
- a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose
- building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
- personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
- (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
- A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
- A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
- (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
- (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
- Misspelling of staph.
verb
noun
- The head of a Sunday school.
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
adj
noun
- (Australia) A schoolteacher.
- (US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
- (UK, military) An education officer.
- (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
- (New York City, slang) A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.
- (equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse.
noun
- (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
- (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
- (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy.
- (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
- The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- (farriery) A toe clip.
- The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
- (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
- informal terms for the nose
- a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures
verb
noun
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
verb
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
adj
noun
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
- capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
- (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- (computing) A security principal.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- Either party in a duel.
- (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
- A main character or lead actor.
- (law) The primary participant in a crime.
- (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
adj
noun
- A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
- (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
- An indication; a lesson.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- a person whose occupation is teaching
- a personified abstraction that teaches
noun
- (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
- A commander.
- The head of a prefecture in Japan.
- The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
- (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
- The head of a department in France.
- a chief officer or chief magistrate
noun
- a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
- an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
- a woman master who directs the work of others
- Female equivalent of master.
- A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
- A female companion to a master (a man with control, authority or ownership).
- The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
- (Scotland) A married woman; a wife.
- Female equivalent of mister.
- A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
- A female teacher.
- A female head of household.
- A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
- A dominatrix.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the profession of a teacher
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message describing how something is to be done
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
noun
- the profession of a teacher
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the principles and methods of instruction
- The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
- The profession of teaching.
- The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
noun
verb
verb
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
noun
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
verb
noun
noun
noun
- presiding officer of a school
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- Ellipsis of master key.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
adj
verb
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
noun
- to a teacher.
- to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
- to a superior military officer.
- A man of a higher rank or position.
- A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
- A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
- term of address for a man
verb
noun
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
noun
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
- An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
- The members of a profession.
- A division of a university.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- (Often in the plural): An ability, power, or skill.
- (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
noun
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school
- a rod carried as a symbol
- (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
- a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose
- building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
- personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
- (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
- A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
- A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
- (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ
- (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
- Misspelling of staph.
verb
noun
- The head of a Sunday school.
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
adj
noun
- (Australia) A schoolteacher.
- (US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
- (UK, military) An education officer.
- (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
- (New York City, slang) A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.
- (equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse.
noun
- (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
- (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
- (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy.
- (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
- The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- (farriery) A toe clip.
- The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
- (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
- informal terms for the nose
- a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures
verb
noun
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
verb
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
adj
noun
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account
- the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
- capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
- (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- (computing) A security principal.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- Either party in a duel.
- (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
- A main character or lead actor.
- (law) The primary participant in a crime.
- (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
adj
noun
- A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
- (Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
- An indication; a lesson.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- a person whose occupation is teaching
- a personified abstraction that teaches
noun
- (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
- A commander.
- The head of a prefecture in Japan.
- The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
- (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
- The head of a department in France.
- a chief officer or chief magistrate
noun
- a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
- an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
- a woman master who directs the work of others
- Female equivalent of master.
- A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
- A female companion to a master (a man with control, authority or ownership).
- The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
- (Scotland) A married woman; a wife.
- Female equivalent of mister.
- A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
- A female teacher.
- A female head of household.
- A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
- A dominatrix.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the profession of a teacher
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a message describing how something is to be done
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
noun
- the profession of a teacher
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- the principles and methods of instruction
- The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
- The profession of teaching.
- The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
noun
verb
noun
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
verb
noun
noun
verb
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.