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   Also found in: Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.04 sec.
head·ing  (hdng)
n.
1. The title, subtitle, or topic that stands at the top or beginning, as of a paragraph, letter, or chapter.
2. The course or direction in which a ship or aircraft is moving.
3.
a. A gallery or drift in a mine.
b. The end of a gallery or drift.

heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ]
n
1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a title for a page, paragraph, chapter, etc.
2. a main division, as of a lecture, speech, essay, etc.
3. (Mining & Quarrying) Mining
a.  a horizontal tunnel
b.  the end of such a tunnel
4. (Engineering / Aeronautics) the angle between the direction of an aircraft and a specified meridian, often due north
5. (Mathematics & Measurements / Navigation) the compass direction parallel to the keel of a vessel
6. the act of heading
7. anything that serves as a head

The direction in which the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or ship is pointed, usually expressed in degrees clockwise from north (true, magnetic, compass, or grid).
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.headingheading - 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"
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.heading - the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
direction, way - a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
tack - the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
3.heading - a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
passageway - a passage between rooms or between buildings

heading
noun
1. title, name, caption, headline, rubric helpful chapter headings
2. category, class, section, division There, under the heading of wholesalers, he found it.
Translations
heading [ˈhedɪŋ] N (= title) → encabezamiento m, título m; (= letterhead) → membrete m; (= section) → sección f, apartado m
under various headingsen varios apartados
to come under the heading ofestar incluido en
heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ] n
[chapter] → titre m
(= subject heading) → rubrique f
head injury nblessure f à la tête
heading
n
Überschrift f; (on letter, document) → Kopf m; (in encyclopedia) → Stichwort nt; under the heading of anthropologyunter dem Stichwort Anthropologie
(Ftbl) → Köpfen nt
heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ] n (title) → titolo; (section) → sezione f; (on letter) → intestazione f
heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ] n (title) → titolo; (section) → sezione f; (on letter) → intestazione f


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Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer.
The next time it come I see I warn't heading for it, but heading away to the right of it.
If the caligraphy be Poe's, it is different in all essential respects from all the many specimens known to us, and strongly resembles that of the writer of the heading and dating of the manuscript, both of which the contributor of the poem acknowledges to have been recently added.
 
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