English words for '(dialect) head'
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noun
noun
- (slang) The head.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (UK, India, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, uncommon in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- (especially nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- A light brown colour.
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
- small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
noun
- (slang) The head.
- informal terms for a human head
- (dated outside dialects) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
- A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
- Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam; rough brick masonry”).
- (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
noun
- (slang) The human head.
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- (slang) The human head.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
- (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
- (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The coconut palm.
- the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
noun
- (slang) A person's head.
- The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
- A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
- Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
- (informal) Loaded dice.
- any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
noun
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- the skin that covers the top of the head
verb
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
noun
- (now only in slang) The head.
- (cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- (slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) A wealthy or influential person; a toff.
- (by extension) (vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)
- informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
verb
noun
- (slang) A face; the head.
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
verb
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
- plural of head.
- One side of a coin:
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (usually) The side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.
- (Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
- Clipping of headphones.
- (nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
- (slang) High-grade marijuana.
- (Ireland, sometimes) The side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp.
intj
verb
noun
- (UK, slang) The head.
- The plant from which this is obtained.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
- (chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
- a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
- the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
verb
noun
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- any of various types of cabbage
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
verb
noun
- (by extension, informal) Head.
- (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.
- (sometimes offensive, slang) A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
- (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person.
- (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
- a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head
noun
- (slang) A person's head or brain.
- informal terms for a human head
- The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
- (architecture) A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
suffix
noun
- (slang) The head or brain.
- informal terms for a human head
- (British, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.
- Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
- (Java programming language) Clipping of JavaBean.
- The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
- (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A toe bean.
- The edible seedpod of such a plant.
- (slang) Any form of tablet, especially benzedrine (benny).
- (slang, often endearing) A person; especially, a baby.
- (by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
- any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
- any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
- any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
verb
noun
- (slang) The brain; the head.
- informal terms for a human head
- (informal) Ellipsis of pool noodle (“a long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools”).
- (by extension) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- (furry fandom) A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
- (Internet slang, endearing, humorous) A borzoi dog.
- (usually in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- (slang) The penis.
- (chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- a ribbonlike strip of pasta
verb
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- (ambitransitive, Shetland, singing) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- (intransitive) To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- (chiefly jazz) To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- (US, informal) To ponder or think about (something).
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- (transitive, fishing) To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- (also figuratively) To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- (intransitive, British, dialectal, informal) To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
- (chiefly jazz) To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
adj
adj
noun
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
adj
noun
- (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.
- 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
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (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
verb
- (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.
- 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
noun
noun
- (slang) The head.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (UK, India, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, uncommon in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- (especially nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- A light brown colour.
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
- small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
noun
- (slang) The head.
- informal terms for a human head
- (dated outside dialects) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
- A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
- Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam; rough brick masonry”).
- (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
noun
- (slang) The human head.
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- (slang) The human head.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
- (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
- (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The coconut palm.
- the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
noun
- (slang) A person's head.
- The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
- A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
- Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
- (informal) Loaded dice.
- any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
noun
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- the skin that covers the top of the head
verb
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
noun
- (now only in slang) The head.
- (cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- (slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) A wealthy or influential person; a toff.
- (by extension) (vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)
- informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
verb
noun
- (slang) A face; the head.
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
verb
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
- plural of head.
- One side of a coin:
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (usually) The side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.
- (Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
- Clipping of headphones.
- (nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
- (slang) High-grade marijuana.
- (Ireland, sometimes) The side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp.
intj
verb
noun
- (UK, slang) The head.
- The plant from which this is obtained.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
- (chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
- a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
- the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
verb
noun
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- any of various types of cabbage
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
verb
noun
- (by extension, informal) Head.
- (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.
- (sometimes offensive, slang) A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
- (US, slang, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person.
- (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
- a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head
noun
- (slang) A person's head or brain.
- informal terms for a human head
- The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
- (architecture) A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
noun
- (slang) The head or brain.
- informal terms for a human head
- (British, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.
- Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
- (Java programming language) Clipping of JavaBean.
- The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
- (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A toe bean.
- The edible seedpod of such a plant.
- (slang) Any form of tablet, especially benzedrine (benny).
- (slang, often endearing) A person; especially, a baby.
- (by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
- any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
- any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
- any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
verb
noun
- (slang) The brain; the head.
- informal terms for a human head
- (informal) Ellipsis of pool noodle (“a long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools”).
- (by extension) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- (furry fandom) A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
- (Internet slang, endearing, humorous) A borzoi dog.
- (usually in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- (slang) The penis.
- (chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- a ribbonlike strip of pasta
verb
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- (ambitransitive, Shetland, singing) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- (intransitive) To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- (chiefly jazz) To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- (US, informal) To ponder or think about (something).
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- (transitive, fishing) To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- (also figuratively) To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- (intransitive, British, dialectal, informal) To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
- (chiefly jazz) To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
adj
adj
noun
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
adj
noun
- (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.
- 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
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (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
verb
- (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.
- 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