header

head·er  (hdr)

n.

1. One that fits a head on an object.

2. One that removes a head from an object, especially a machine that reaps the heads of grain and passes them into a wagon or receptacle.

3. A pipe that serves as a central connection for two or more smaller pipes.

4. A floor or roof beam placed between two long beams that supports the ends of the tailpieces.

5. A brick or stone laid at a right angle to the face of a wall so that only its short end is showing. Also called bonder.

6. Informal A headlong dive or fall.

7. Sports A pass or shot made in soccer by heading the ball.

8. Textual information, such as a title, date, or page number, positioned in the top margin of a page and usually repeated throughout a document.

9. A raised tank or hopper that maintains a constant pressure or supply to a system, especially the small tank that supplies water to a central heating system.

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header [ˈhɛdə]

n

1. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) Also called header tank a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus

2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a manifold for distributing a fluid supply amongst a number of passages

3. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a machine that trims the heads from castings, forgings, etc., or one that forms heads, as in wire, to make nails

4. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a person who operates such a machine

5. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a brick or stone laid across a wall so that its end is flush with the outer surface Compare stretcher [5]

6. (Team Sports / Soccer) the action of striking a ball with the head

7. Informal a headlong fall or dive

8. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing

a.  a block of data on a tape or disk providing information about the size, location, etc., of a file

b.  (as modifier) header card header label

9. Dialect a mentally unbalanced person

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	header - a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" heading, head crosshead, crossheading - a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text headline, newspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper article lemma - the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry rubric - a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type running head, running headline - a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book subhead, subheading - a heading of a subdivision of a text statute title, title, rubric - a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with; "Title 8 provided federal help for schools" line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"
	2.	header - horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window lintel beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
	3.	header - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall cope, coping brick - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material wall - an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures"
	4.	header - a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
	5.	header - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon harvester, reaper - farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
	6.	header - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head hitting, striking, hit - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" association football, soccer - a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
	7.	header - a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" jumping, jump - the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"

Translations

header [ˈhedəʳ] N

1. (Ftbl) → cabezazo m, remate m de cabeza

2. (= fall) → caída f de cabeza; (= dive) → salto m de cabeza

3. (Typ, Comput) → encabezamiento m

header [ˈhɛdə^r] n (British) → tête m, coup m de tête
head gardener n → chef jardinier/ière m/f

header

n

(Brit: = dive) → Kopfsprung m, → Köpfer m (inf); to take a header into the water → einen Kopfsprung ins Wasser machen; (= fall) → kopfüber ins Wasser fallen; the dollar took a header → der Dollarkurs fiel, der Dollar machte eine Talfahrt (inf)

(Ftbl) → Kopfstoß m, → Kopfball m; he’s a good header of the ball → er köpft gut

(Typ) → Kopfzeile f

header [ˈhɛdəʳ] n (Brit) (fam) (Ftbl) → colpo di testa (000) (fall) → caduta di testa
he took a header into the water → fece un tuffo di testa nell'acqua

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header [ˈhɛdəʳ] n (Brit) (fam) (Ftbl) → colpo di testa (000) (fall) → caduta di testa
he took a header into the water → fece un tuffo di testa nell'acqua