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header

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English

Alternative forms

  • hdr (abbreviation)

Etymology

From head +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: hĕd'ər IPA(key): /ˈhɛdɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɛdə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)

Noun

header (plural headers)

  1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
    Coordinate terms: body, footer, table
  2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
    Synonyms: head, heading
  3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
  4. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
  5. (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
  6. (programming) Clipping of header file.
  7. (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
  8. (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing.
    Synonyms: bonder, coping, cope
    Coordinate term: stretcher
  9. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
    Synonym: lintel
  10. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
  11. (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
  12. (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
    Hyponym: diving header
  13. A headlong fall, jump or dive.
  14. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
  15. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
  16. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
  17. One who puts a head on something.

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Translations

Verb

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

  1. (sports, transitive) To strike (a ball) with one's head.

Further reading

  • header on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • header (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “header”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “header”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Hardee, adhere, heared, hedera, rehead

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