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Synonyms: leader, healer, reader, heater, headed, heaver, helder, hearer, deader, herder, headier

Antonyms: leader, healer, reader, heater, headed, heaver, helder, hearer, deader, herder, headier

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Noun

The upper [[portion]] of a [[page]] (or other) [[layout]].
[[text|Text]], or other visual information, used to [[mark off]] a quantity of text, often [[title|titling]] or [[summarize|summarizing]] it.
Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a [[column]] of information in a [[table]].
{{lb|en|informal}} A [[font]], text style, or [[typesetting]] used for any of the above.
{{lb|en|computing}} The first part of a [[file]] or [[record]] that describes its contents.
{{lb|en|programming}} {{clipping of|en|header file}}.
{{lb|en|networking}} the first part of a [[packet]] or [[stream]], often containing its address and descriptors.
{{lb|en|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).
A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
A [[machine]] that [[separate]]s and [[gather]]s the [[head]]s of [[grain]] etc.
{{lb|en|soccer}} The act of [[hitting]] the [[ball]] with the head.
{{lb|en|soccer}} Someone who [[head]]s the ball.

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