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A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Some very simple animals may ...
is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Head or Heads may also refer to:
* Human head
full Isaac
''full Isaac'' is the debut studio album by Lotion, released in 1994. The album was named in reference to ''The Love Boat''.
Critical reception
''Trouser Press'' wrote that "Lotion’s songwriting isn’t yet strong enough to connect the dots of ...
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* "Head", a song by The Cooper Temple Clause from the album ''
Make This Your Own
''Make This Your Own'' is the third and final album by British alternative rock band The Cooper Temple Clause.
It reached #33 in the UK album charts, despite not having the major label backing afforded to the band's first two albums.
Track lis ...
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* "Head", a song by Don Patterson from the album ''
Mellow Soul
''Mellow Soul'' is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label.The Xenon Codex''
* "Heads", a song by James from the album ''
Living in Extraordinary Times
''Living in Extraordinary Times'' is the 15th studio album by British rock band James. It was released on 3 August 2018, through Infectious Music. A few months after the release of the band's 14th studio album, ''Girl at the End of the World'' i ...
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Other music
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Head (band)
Head were an English rock band of the late 1980s.
History
After making three albums and a few singles the Bristol-based combo faded away. Nick Sheppard previously played in The Cortinas (punk band), The Cortinas and The Clash. Gareth Sager p ...
, an English rock band
* The Head (band), an indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
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Head (music)
In its broadest sense, the head of a piece of music is its main theme, particularly in jazz, where the term takes on a more specific set of innovation. In other types of music, "head" may refer to the first or most prominent section of a song. Th ...
, a main theme in jazz
* Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
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Headstock
A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instruments such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage. The main function of a headstock is to house the pegs or mechanism that holds the strings at the ...
, a part of an instrument
* Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head
* Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
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Head Entertainment
Head Entertainment was an entertainment retail chain in the United Kingdom. The company was formed on 18 February 2009 when Simon Douglas, former managing director of Zavvi and business partner Les Whitfield, purchased five stores from Zavvi ...
, a chain of retail stores
* Head Shampoo, an American organic hair product
Computing
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head (Unix)
head is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to display the beginning of a text file or piped data.
Syntax
The command syntax is:
head ptions<file_name>
By default, head will print the first 10 lines of its input to ...
Repository
Repository may refer to:
Archives and online databases
* Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content
* Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ...
Maritime
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Head (watercraft)
The head (pl. heads) is a ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship.
Design
In sailing ships, the toilet was placed in the bow somewhat above t ...
, the toilet on a watercraft
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Head (sail)
Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. ''fore-and- ...
, the uppermost corner part of a sail
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Head race
A head race is a time-trial competition in the sport of rowing. Head races are typically held in the fall, winter and spring seasons. These events draw many athletes as well as observers. In this form of racing, rowers race against the clock wh ...
or ''crew race'', a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
* Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
Science
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Head (botany)
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...
, a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
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Head (geology)
Head describes deposits consisting of fragmented material which, following weathering, have moved downslope through a process of solifluction. The term has been used by British geologists since the middle of the 19th century to describe such materi ...
, a recent near-surface deposit
* Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
* Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
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Head (hydrology)
In hydrology, the head is the point on a watercourse up to which it has been artificially broadened and/or raised by an impoundment. Above the head of the reservoir natural conditions prevail; below it the water level above the riverbed has bee ...
, the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
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Headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...
, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
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High Energy Astrophysics Division
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
, a division of the American Astronomical Society
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Hydraulic head
Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a vertical datum., 410 pages. See pp. 43–44., 650 pages. See p. 22.
It is usually measured as a liquid surface elevation, expressed in units of length, ...
, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
** Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
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Total dynamic head
In fluid dynamics, total dynamic head (TDH) is the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe.
: {\rm h_{total} = \frac{P_2-P_1}{\rho g} + \frac{{v_2}^2-{v_1}^2}{2g
: TDH = Static Heigh ...
, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe
Technology
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Cylinder head
In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder head (often abbreviated to simply "head") sits above the cylinders and forms the roof of the combustion chamber.
In sidevalve engines, the head is a simple sheet of metal; whereas in more modern ov ...
, a part of an internal combustion engine
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Head (vessel)
A head is one of the end caps on a cylindrically shaped pressure vessel.
Principle
Vessel dished ends are mostly used in storage or pressure vessels in industry. These ends, which in upright vessels are the bottom and the top, use less space ...
, an end cap on a pressure vessel
* Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
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Recording head
A recording head is the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium. Recording heads are generally classified according to the physical principle that allows them to impress their data upon their medium. A record ...
, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
** Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
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Sprinkler head
A fire sprinkler or sprinkler head is the component of a fire sprinkler system that discharges water when the effects of a fire have been detected, such as when a predetermined temperature has been exceeded. Fire sprinklers are extensively used ...
, a component of a fire sprinkler system
Titles
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Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches. In some sports, the head coach is instead called the "manager", as in assoc ...
, senior coach of an athletic team
* Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
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Head of government
The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a gro ...
, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
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Head of mission
In diplomatic usage, head of mission (HOM) or chief of mission (COM) from the French "chef de mission diplomatique" (CMD) is the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an ambassador, high commissioner, nuncio, chargé d'affaires, permane ...
, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and l ...
, the most senior public representative of a state
* Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
* Head, a person who uses psychoactive drugs, such as a cokehead
Beer head
Beer is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England. The village faces Lyme Bay and is a little over west of the town of Seaton. It is situated on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and its picturesque cliffs, ...
, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
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Head of radius
The head of the radius has a cylindrical form, and on its upper surface is a shallow cup or fovea for articulation with the capitulum of the humerus. The circumference of the head is smooth; it is broad medially where it articulates with the radi ...
, part of the forearm bone
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Sydney Heads
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains ...
or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
* Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Head baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Head, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2007.
Head Baronetcy, of The Hermitage, in the parish of ...
, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
* Head, the flat end of a
barrel
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, ...
* Head, slang for oral sex
* Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
See also
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Headed (disambiguation) Headed may refer to:
*A headed phrase, in linguistics
*Headed notepaper
See also
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* Head (disambiguation)
* Header (disambiguation)
Header may refer to:
Computers and engineering
* Header (computing), supplemental data at the beginning of a dat ...
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Header (disambiguation)
Header may refer to:
Computers and engineering
* Header (computing), supplemental data at the beginning of a data block
** E-mail header
** HTTP header
* Header file, a text file used in computer programming (especially in C and C++)
* A pin head ...
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Heading (disambiguation)
Heading can refer to:
* Heading (metalworking), a process which incorporates the extruding and upsetting processes
* Headline, text at the top of a newspaper article
* Heading (navigation), the Direction (geometry), direction a person or vehicle ...
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Heads in heraldry
The heads of humans and other animals are frequently occurring charges in heraldry. The blazon, or heraldic description, usually states whether an animal's head is couped (as if cut off cleanly at the neck), erased (as if forcibly ripped from th ...