header — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

   Beispiele

   If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.

2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.

   Synonyme

   headheading

   Beispiele

   Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.

   Beispiele

   That column should have the header "payment status".

4. A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.

   Gebrauch

   • informell

   Beispiele

   Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.

5. The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.

   Beispiele

   The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.

6. the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.

   Beispiele

   The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

7. 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).

   Synonyme

   bondercopingcope

   Beispiele

   This wall has four header courses.

8. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.

   Synonyme

   lintel

9. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.

   Beispiele

   They fed the bale into the header.

10. The act of hitting the ball with the head.

    Beispiele

    His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.

    The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.

11. Someone who heads the ball.

12. A headlong fall, jump or dive.

    Beispiele

    The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.

    Weitere Beispiele (1)

    "When the rest are in, you see one or two shiverin' on the bank, envyin' the others that have taken the plunge. It's the last that have the worst of it. I'm all for a header and have done with it."

13. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.

14. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.

    Beispiele

    Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.

15. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.

16. One who puts a head on something.

17. A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).

    Gebrauch

    • Ireland
    • abwertend

Verb

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

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

Substantiv

1. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

   Synonyme

   headinghead

   Oberbegriffe

   line

   Beispiele

   the heading seemed to have little to do with the text

2. horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

   Synonyme

   lintel

   Oberbegriffe

   beam

3. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

   Synonyme

   copingcope

   Oberbegriffe

   brick

4. a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters

   Oberbegriffe

   beam

5. a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon

   Oberbegriffe

   harvesterreaper

6. (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head

   Oberbegriffe

   hithittingstriking

7. a headlong jump (or fall)

   Oberbegriffe

   jumpjumping

   Beispiele

   he took a header into the shrubbery