Header

Noun

 * 1) The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
 * If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
 * 1) Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
 * Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
 * 1) Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
 * That column should have the header "payment status".
 * 1)  A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
 * Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
 * 1) a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher
 * This wall has four header courses.
 * 1) a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening
 * 2) a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc
 * They fed the bale into the header.
 * 1)  the act of hitting the ball with the head
 * His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
 * 1) a headlong fall or jump
 * ''The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.
 * 1)  the first part of a file or record that describes its contents
 * The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
 * 1) (networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors
 * The encapsulation layer adds an eight byte header and a two byte trailer to each packet.
 * 1) A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system

Brickwork

1. A brick laid with an end exposed in the wall

Carpentry

1. A wood beam set between two trimmers and carrying the tail beams

Synonyms

 * head, heading
 * bonder, coping, cope
 * lintel

Derived terms

 * diving header

Thesaurus
belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive, cropper, culbute, dive, drop, fall, flop, forced landing, gainer, jackknife, nose dive, parachute jump, pitch, plunge, pounce, power dive, pratfall, running dive, sky dive, spill, sprawl, stationary dive, stoop, stumble, swan dive, swoop, trip, tumble

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ylätunniste
 * French:


 * German: Kopfzeile
 * Italian:
 * Polish: nagłówek


 * French: chapeau
 * Russian:


 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * French: boutisse
 * Polish: cegła wiążąca ,


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: bindare, koppsten


 * French: linteau


 * Swedish: överstycke


 * Russian: жатка (žátka), хедер (χ'éd'er)


 * Swedish: skördemaskin


 * Italian: caduta di testa, tuffo
 * Polish: skok na główkę


 * Swedish: dykning, huvudhopp


 * Dutch: kopbal
 * Finnish: pukkaus, pusku
 * French:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian: colpo di testa
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Related terms

 * body
 * footer
 * head
 * heading
 * layout
 * table
 * table cell

Anagrams

 * adhere
 * hedera