heading
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Synonyms: heaving, leading, healing, heeding, hearing, headling, heating, beading, reading, herding, heaping
Antonyms: heaving, leading, healing, heeding, hearing, headling, heating, beading, reading, herding, heaping
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Verb
- {{infl of|en|head||ing-form}}
Noun
- The [[title]] or [[topic]] of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- {{lb|en|[[nautical]] and [[aeronautical]]}} The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- {{lb|en|mining}} A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a [[drift]] or [[gallery]]; the [[vein]] above a drift.
- {{lb|en|sewing}} The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- {{lb|en|masonry}} The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.<ref>{{R:Knight AMD}}</ref>
- {{lb|en|flags}} A strip of material at the [[hoist]] end of a [[flag]], used for attaching the flag to its [[halyard]].
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