heading

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.

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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

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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).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	heading - 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" header, 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.	heading - the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies bearing, aim 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" drift, gallery mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth passageway - a passage between rooms or between buildings

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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 headings → en varios apartados
to come under the heading of → estar incluido en

heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ] n

[chapter] → titre m

(= subject heading) → rubrique f
head injury n → blessure f à la tête

heading

n

→ Überschrift f; (on letter, document) → Kopf m; (in encyclopedia) → Stichwort nt; under the heading of anthropology → unter dem Stichwort Anthropologie

(Ftbl) → Köpfen nt

heading [ˈhɛdɪŋ] n (title) → titolo; (section) → sezione f; (on letter) → intestazione f