What's the difference between counter and head?

Counter


Definition:

  • (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
  • (v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
  • (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
  • (v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
  • (v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
  • (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
  • (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
  • (adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
  • (adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
  • (adv.) At or against the front or face.
  • (a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
  • (adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
  • (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
  • (adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
  • (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
  • (n.) An encounter.
  • (v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
  • (2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (4) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (5) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
  • (6) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
  • (7) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
  • (8) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
  • (9) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
  • (10) The effect was countered by prior administration of atropine into the site.
  • (11) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
  • (12) It could be evaluated both by a plaquing technique and by cell enumeration with an electronic particle counter.
  • (13) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
  • (14) Alteration in the temperature of the Isoton diluent in a Coulter model S counter over a range of possible laboratory working temperatures produced a change in the mean corpuscular volume using EDTA and dipotassium acid citrate dextrose blood and a commercial control, 4C.
  • (15) The lower values of the histological score and the possibly lower peripheral plasma concentration of testosterone after the arterial by-pass may indicate a physiological importance of the counter current exchange.
  • (16) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (17) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
  • (18) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
  • (19) A simple equilibrium method for detecting and quantifying these interactions is to study the mutual influence of the molecules on their respective counter-current distribution in liquid-liquid biphasic systems.
  • (20) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.

Head


Definition:

  • (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
  • (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
  • (n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
  • (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
  • (n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
  • (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
  • (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
  • (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
  • (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
  • (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
  • (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
  • (n.) Power; armed force.
  • (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
  • (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
  • (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
  • (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
  • (n.) The antlers of a deer.
  • (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
  • (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
  • (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
  • (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
  • (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
  • (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
  • (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
  • (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
  • (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
  • (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
  • (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
  • (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (2) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (3) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
  • (4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (5) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (6) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (7) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
  • (8) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (9) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (10) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
  • (11) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
  • (12) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (13) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
  • (14) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (16) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (17) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
  • (18) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (19) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
  • (20) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].