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词汇 head
释义 head
noun
uk /hed/ us /hed/

headnoun (BODY PART)


A1[ C ]
the part of the body above the neck where the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and brain are: 头部
Put this hat on to keep your head warm.戴上这顶帽子,给头部保暖。
He banged his head on the car as he was getting in.他上汽车时撞了一下头。
nod your headShe thought for a while, and then nodded her head (= showed her agreement).
shake your headI asked her if I could go inside, but she shook her head (= showed her disagreement).
 
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[ S ]
a person or animal when considered as a unit: 人数;(动物的)头数
Dinner will cost £20 a/per head (= for each person).晚餐每人要花费20英镑。
head countI did a quick head count (= calculated how many people there were).我很快地点了一下人数。
They own a hundred head of cattle (= 100 animals).他们有100头牛。
See also
headcount
[ S ]
a measure of length or height equal to the size of a head: 一头的长度(或高度)
by a headHer horse won by a head.她的马以领先一头的距离获胜。
a head tallerPaul is a head taller than Andrew.保罗比安德鲁高出一头。
I like swimming but I don't like getting my head underwater.
Tim had a nasty bump on his head from when he'd fallen over.
She twisted her head round so she could see what was happening.她扭过头来,想看看发生了什么事。
He fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.他头一沾枕头就睡着了。
She signified her agreement by nodding her head.她点头表示同意。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The head
acephalous
basilar
bean
bonce
brachiocephalic
endocranial cast
extracranial
fontanel
foramen magnum
headed
noggin
noodle
occipital
occipital bone
occipitalis
squamosal
sternocleidomastoid
suboccipital
temporal bone
tonsure

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Particular and individual
Measurements of length & distance

headnoun (MIND)


B1[ C ]
the mind and mental abilities: 头脑,智力
I went for a walk to clear my head.
into your headWhat put that into your head? (= What made you think that?)
Once she gets an idea into her head she won't give up.
out of your headI can't get that tune out of my head (= I cannot stop hearing the tune in my mind).
I can't get her out of my head (= I cannot stop thinking about her).
a head forWe need to find a practical person with a head for business.
a good head forHarriet has a good head for figures (= she is very good at calculating numbers).哈丽雅特非常擅长数字计算。
See also
clear head
useyour head
 a head for heightsUK
the ability to be in a high place without feeling fear:
Do you have a head for heights?
Why didn't you use your head and cover the furniture before you started painting?你为什么不动脑筋想想,在粉刷前把家具罩上?
Add up the column of figures in your head and then tell me what the sum is.
Her words kept running through my head.
She doesn't have an original thought in her head - she just repeats anything that Sara says.
I need to get some fresh air to clear my head .
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Intelligence
acuity
acumen
agility
apt
aptness
brain
grey matter
gumption
highbrow
horse sense
hyper-intelligent
penetrative
perceptively
percipient
percipiently
perspicacious
perspicaciously
when all is said and doneidiom
whip-smart
wisdom

headnoun (LEADER)


B1[ C ]
someone in charge of or leading an organization, group, etc.: 领导人,负责人
the head of the History department历史系主任
the head chef主厨
his first season as head coach他作为主教练的第一个赛季。
A2[ C ]mainly UK
a headteacherUK(同 headteacher)
 head boy/girlUK
a boy or girl who often represents his or her school on formal occasions: 学生代表
We are delighted to announce that Dominic Carter will be our next head boy.
I think she'll be head of this company in five year's time - I'd stake my reputation on it.我认为不出5年她就会成为这家公司的头儿——我敢用我的名誉担保。
May I remind you, children, that I'm the head of the family and I am in charge around here.
As the European heads of state gathered, the press were allowed in for a photo session.欧洲国家首脑聚集起来时,新闻记者获准进入拍照。
The Queen is the head of the Church of England.女王是英国国教会的首脑。
Janet is now a departmental head.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People in charge of or controlling other people
acephalous
administrator
anti-management
authority
bureaucrat
controller
council
counter-power
dean
deputy
manipulator
mistress
movers and shakers
multi-headed
officer
troika
tsar
vice presidency
vice president
vicegerency

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Bosses & managers
Teachers

headnoun (TOP PART)


C2[ S ]
the top part or beginning of something: 顶部;开始部分
the head of the queue队伍的前部
the head of the page书眉
Diana, the guest of honour, sat at the head of the table (= the most important end of it).黛安娜作为贵宾坐在上座。
[ C ]
the larger end of a nail, hammer, etc.钉头;锤头
[ C ]
the top part of a plant where a flower or leaves grow: (植物的)叶球,头状花序
a head of lettuce一棵生菜
[ C ]
the layer of white bubbles on top of beer after it has been poured啤酒沫
[ C ]
the upper part of a river, where it begins(河的)上游,源头
[ C ]
the top part of a spot when it contains pus (= yellow liquid)脓头
Her name was printed at the head of the letter.
This beer's flat. It's got no head on it.
You've hit the nail right on the head.
Place the head of the club just behind the ball.
He pushed his way to the head of the queue.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Edges & extremities of objects
apex
apical
apices
bevel
border
bottom
cap
circumference
crown
edge
extremity
foot
line of demarcation
palm-fringed
perimeter
peripherally
periphery
rim
spout
verge

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Tools
Flowers - general words
Beer & cider
Parts of watercourses
Skin complaints & blemishes

headnoun (COIN SIDE)


 heads[ U ]
the side of a coin that has a picture of someone's head on it: 硬币有人头像的一面,硬币正面
Heads won, so our team got to decide who played first.

headnoun (DEVICE)


[ C ]
the part of a tape or video recorder (= machine for recording sound or pictures) that touches the tape to record and play music, speech, etc.(录音机、录像机的)磁头
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Audio & video equipment
78
audiocassette
audiotape
body cam
body-worn
boom box
digital audio tape
equalizer
hi-fi
PDC
PMP
portable music player
radiogram
stereo
subwoofer
tape
turntable
tweeter
VCR
wire

headnoun (GRAMMAR)


[ C ] language specialized
the main part of the phrase, to which the other parts are related(短语的)中心词,主导词
Compare
tailnoun(GRAMMAR)specialized
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistic terms & linguistic style
accentual
affricate
allophone
allophony
anaphor
contextualize
easy read
emphatic
entailment
etymological
etymologically
inflected language
parataxis
pathetic fallacy
philological
philologically
polysemy
portmanteau word
stylistics
tautology

headnoun (LAND)


[ C ] geography specialized
a narrow area of high land that sticks out into the sea: (伸入海中的)岬,岬角
the chalk cliffs around Beachy Head
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: promontories & peninsulas
arm
cape
Cape Cod
causeway
headland
isthmus
panhandle
peninsula
peninsular
point
promontory
sea stack
spit
stack
tombolo

Grammar



Heads
The head is the most important word in a phrase. All the other words in a phrase depend on the head. Words which are part of the phrase and which come before the head are called the pre-head. Words which are part of the phrase and which come after the head are called the post-head. …

Idioms


a head of steam
an old/a wise head on young shoulders
be banging, etc. your head against a brick wall
be in over your head
be off your head
bite/snap someone's head off
bury/have your head in the sand
can't get your head around sth
can't make head nor tail of something
come to a head
More idioms

do someone's head in
from head to toe
a full, good, thick, etc. head of hair
get it into your thick head
get your head down
get something into your head
get/put your head down
give head
give your head a shake
give someone their head
give someone a heads up
go over someone's head
go to someone's head
have a good head on your shoulders
have your business, sensible, etc. head on
have your head (buried/stuck) in a book
have your head in the clouds
have your head screwed on (the right way)
head in the game
head and shoulders above
head first
head over heels (in love)
heads I win, tails you lose
heads or tails?
heads will roll!
keep your head
keep your head above water
keep your head down
laugh, shout, scream, etc. your head off
over your head
put their heads together
take it into your head to do something
head
verb
uk /hed/ us /hed/

headverb (GO)


B2[ I+ adv/prep ]
to go in a particular direction: 朝某特定方向行进
head out ofI was heading out of the room when she called me back.她叫我回来的时候我正朝屋外走。
head towardsWe were heading towards Kumasi when our truck broke down.我们在前往库马西的途中卡车抛锚了。
head backI think we ought to head back (= return to where we started) now, before it gets too dark.
head homeI called into see Gerry before heading home for the weekend.
They looked as if they were heading for the train station.他们看上去像是朝火车站去了。
We're going to stop off in Paris for a couple of days before heading south.
The country seems to be heading towards revolution.这个国家似乎正在走向革命。
Head towards the station until you come to a set of traffic lights.
They headed north on the M6.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General words for movement
betake
body English
budge
budge up
carry
circulate
gone
heaving
inertly
keepy-uppy
kinetic
kinetic energy
motion
movement
pass
repair
repair to somewhere
scoot
seethe
shove

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Advancing and moving forward

headverb (LEADER)


B2[ T ]
to be in charge of a group or organization: 领导,主管
She heads one of Britain's leading travel firms.她主管英国的主要旅行社之一。
Judge Hawthorne was chosen to head the team investigating the allegations of abuse.霍索恩法官被选中率领这个小组调查有关虐待的指控。
The inquiry will be headed by Lord Jones, sometime editor of the 'Daily News'.
Professor Norris will head the new research unit.
He has been asked to head the official inquiry into police misconduct.
She heads the company's publicity department.
The management team is headed by Stephen Jones.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Managing and organizing
admin
administer
administration
anti-bureaucracy
bronze command
flabbily
get up
get your act togetheridiom
gold command
have/get your shit togetheridiom
mobilize
mount
party planner
party planning
project-manage
rationalization
rationalize
recentralization
vice-presidential
wieldy

headverb (TOP PART)


C1[ T ]
to be at the front or top of something: 在…的前部(或顶部)
The royal carriage headed the procession.女王的马车行进在队伍的前头。
Jo's name headed the list of candidates.乔的名字排在候选人名单的最前面。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ahead, in front and beyond
ahead
ahead of
ante
be (right) under your noseidiom
before
beyond
downriver
follow
follow your noseidiom
fore
forward
front
front end
frontally
lead
nose
para
past
up
yonder

headverb (SPORT)


[ T ]
to hit a ball with your head: 用头顶(球)
Rooney headed the ball into the back of the net.欧文把球顶进了网窝。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Football/soccer
18-yard box
2 3 5
4 3 2 1
4 4 2
4 5 1
foosball
football boot
football player
football pools
football pyramid
premiership
professional foul
promedios
rabona
reducer
sweeper
the Football League
the Premier League
treble
woodwork

Phrasal verbs


head for something
head off
head someone/something off
head something off
head something up
-head
suffix
uk / -hed/ us / -hed/
a person with a particular strong interest or addiction: 瘾君子;…迷
a crack-head (= someone who depends on the drug crack)对强效可卡因上瘾的人
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drug addiction
abuser
addictiveness
anti-crack
buzzed
buzzed up
crack house
dependency
detox
druggie
glue-sniffer
glue-sniffing
go cold turkey
habit
habit-forming
hooked
hophead
junkie
pothead
smackhead
substance use disorder

head | American Dictionary


head
noun
us/hed/

headnoun (BODY PART)


[ C/U ]
the part of the body that contains the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and the brain:
[ C ]She nodded her head in agreement.
[ C/U ]
A head is also the approximate length of a head used as a measurement:
[ C ]Carlos is almost a head taller than Manuel.

headnoun (MIND)


[ C ]
the mind and mental abilities:
She has a good head for figures.
If you’d just use your head (= think clearly and carefully), you would realize that you are better off living where you are.
Someone offered me the ticket, and your name popped into my head.

headnoun (TOP)


[ C/U ]
a position or part at the top, front, or beginning:
[ U ]They were early enough to get a place at the head of the line.
[ U ]As the guest of honor, he sat at the head of the table (= the more important end).
[ C/U ]
The head of a plant is the top part where a flower or leaves grow:
[ C ]I bought two heads of lettuce.

headnoun (LEADER)


[ C ]
someone who leads or is in charge of an organization or group, or this position of leadership:
In 1990 he was made head of the engineering division.

Idioms


head and shoulders above someone/something
head over heels (in love)
head
verb
us/hed/

headverb (GO)


[ I ]
to go in a particular direction:
I was heading out the door when the phone rang.
We decided to head back/home (= return to where we started) before it got too dark.
fig. He’s headed for trouble if he gets involved with her.

headverb (LEAD)


[ T ]
to lead or control something:
She headed a group that defended the senator against detractors.

headverb (BE AT TOP)


[ T ]
to be at the top, front, or beginning of something:
Currently, her name heads the list of candidates for the job.

Phrasal verbs


head someone off
head something off
head up something
head
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/hed/

headadjective[not gradable] (MAIN)


main or most important:
In his first season as head coach, McGuire guided his team to the regional championship.

head | Business English


head
noun[ C ]
uk /hed/us
a person who is in charge of a team, department, or an organization:
Each department head has a great deal of freedom with regard to decision-making.
The proposal awaits final approval by a meeting of EU heads of state next month.
If you are a single parent, you can reduce your tax liability by filing as a head of household with a dependent child.
a head buyer/cashier/trader
one person considered as a unit:
cost/price/spend per headThe region saw incomes per head fall by an average 4 per cent a year over the past decade.
The airline offered maximum compensation of £150 a head to anyone whose flight was disrupted by the strike action.
 be/get in over your head
to be involved in something that is too difficult for you to deal with:
He denied fraud saying he was a businessman who just got in over his head.
 bury/have your head in the sand
to refuse to think about a problem or difficult situation that could have unpleasant effects:
The dangers of identity theft are clear but many companies still choose to bury their heads in the sand and act only after there has been a security breach.
 come to a head(alsobring sth to a head)
if a difficult situation comes to a head, or someone brings it to a head, it reaches a stage when someone must take strong action to deal with it:
The row came to a head when the US imposed one billion dollars in taxes on a whole range of consumer goods.
 get your head round/around sth
to manage to understand something:
It's hard to get your head round these new tax laws.
 get/keep your head downUKinformal
to put all your effort into finishing a particular task:
If I get my head down, I'll be able to finish the report before the end of the day.
to do or say as little as possible in order to avoid attention:
The chairman intends to keep his head down until his disagreement with the serious fraud office is settled.
 go over sb's head
to deal with someone at a higher level:
He was furious that staff had gone over his head to try and implement departmental changes without his approval.
to be too difficult for someone to understand:
Most of the budget meeting went over my head.
 have a (good) head for sth
to be very good at something:
She had a good head for business.
 head on
if you deal with something head on, you deal with it directly and with determination:
Leading corporations are tackling their carbon emissions head on.
if you compete head on with another business, you offer the same products or services and each try to be more successful than the other:
The merger should enable the bank to compete head on with the other major investment institutions.
 heads will roll
used to say that people are likely to be punished or lose their jobs because of something they have done:
Sources close to the bank have denied suggestions that heads will roll following the huge losses reported this week.
 keep your head above water
to try to manage a difficult situation, especially when it involves a lot of work or a lack of money:
The business has lurched from one financial crisis to another but we have managed to keep our heads above water.
 put our/your/their heads together
to work together with others to solve a problem or deal with a difficult situation:
If we want to remain competitive, we'd better put our heads together and come up with new ways of reaching our market.
 two heads are better than one
used to say that two people working together will achieve more than one person working alone
See also
blocknoun
turnverb
heads of agreement
head start
heads-up
head tax
head-to-headadverb
head-to-headadjective
head
verb
uk /hed/us
[ T ] HR
to lead or manage a team, department, organization, etc.:
After five years in the US office, he returns to London to head the finance department.
[ I ]
to move in a particular direction or towards a particular result:
be headed for/towards sthThe corporate bond market is heading for its worst year in a decade as prices continue to fall.
These initial signs of recovery show the company is once again headed in the right direction.
[ T, passive ]
to put a title at the top of a page, column, etc.:
The report was headed "confidential".
 head north/south
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET informal
if share prices or currencies head north, they increase in value, and if they head south, they lose value:
The job cuts followed significant drops in stock values when the Nasdaq headed south.

Phrasal verbs


head down
head sth off
head up

Examples of head


head
Disjunctive logic programs are characterised by permitting disjunctions in rule heads.
Perhaps, moreover, a case can be made for saying that philosophical understanding is advanced, not by solving problems head-on, but by moving around them.
The authors suggest that representations from one participant's head are aligned directly with those from the other participant's head.
Predictably, no modifiers can then intervene between the head and the relative clause.
Language learners use their heads to figure out the same things, and their understanding of language is driven by this lexical knowledge.
Typically, 200-300 tiller heads are produced at 500 seeds/m2.
Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalistic clay animals, with heads and legs, for example.
The head partial tree is then extended one level.
In addition to its precise spatial location, the form of response to be generated involved a dipping of the pigeon's head at that location.
Therefore, a noun phrase containing its head noun plus a postnominal genitive nominal in fact consisted of two noun phrases.
Body size is defined as the linear measure of head plus alitrunk.
A weak head reduction relation is defined for the expressions of the calculus.
However, some evidence suggests that household heads with college or postgraduate degrees were paying a higher price on onions, peppers and potatoes than their counterparts.
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Collocations withhead


head

These are words often used in combination with head.

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bald head
It is a baldhead now.
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Hansard archive

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carved head
The site includes some interesting gravestones of the late 18th century, plus an early medieval carved head on the gateway.
From
Wikipedia

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disembodied head
They meet two inhabitants of the moon, one of whom moves about as a disembodied head.
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Wikipedia

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