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English

From head +‎ -er.

header (plural headers)

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
Coordinate terms: body, footer, table
Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
Synonyms: head, heading
Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
(computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
(programming) Clipping of header file.
(networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
Hyponyms: cache header, cache-control header

Coordinate terms: body, payload
(masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
Synonyms: bonder, coping, cope

Coordinate term: stretcher
A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
Synonym: lintel
A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
(soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
(soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
Hyponym: diving header
A headlong fall, jump or dive.
A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
One who puts a head on something.

header (third-person singular simple present headers, present participle headering, simple past and past participle headered)