What's the difference between denouement and head?

Denouement


Definition:

  • (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
  • (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some expected a grand finale, a denouement in which the problems raised by the ruling of the European court of justice against Google on the so-called “right to be forgotten” would be resolved.
  • (2) That Norwich now sit 14th in the Premier League, four points clear of the bottom three, underlines the difference that one good result can make as the season's denouement draws close.
  • (3) At the episode’s denouement, Pat discovers Katie’s doll behind a box of chocolates – it was there the whole time!
  • (4) A Brazilian World Cup that started amid fears over protests and corruption but became a paean to the best of international football concluded with a tense final and a dramatic denouement.
  • (5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
  • (6) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (7) Diamé’s wonderful effort that curled into the top corner came after concerted pressure throughout this dramatic denouement to the Championship season.
  • (8) When Zidane retired from playing after leading France to the World Cup final in 2006 – player of the tournament in Germany despite his infamous denouement – the midfielder did not intend to move into coaching.
  • (9) The final denouement has just played out in the French Parliament with an announcement last week which makes specific reference to resistance in the South that all existing shale gas permits and authorisations have been annulled.
  • (10) In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the tragic denouement can be attributed directly to the consequences of the Great Plague.
  • (11) An amnesty, which does not have the support of the State Department, would represent a surprising denouement to an international drama that has lasted half a year .
  • (12) West Ham’s signing of the season provided the dramatic denouement.
  • (13) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
  • (14) The first is Cyprus, where long-running, UN-brokered talks on reunification are inching towards some sort of denouement.
  • (15) People are quick to write off women’s sprinters but we have shown that we can peak on this stage and in front of a strong field.” There was a dramatic denouement, too, in the long jump, where England’s prospects had suffered the worst possible start.
  • (16) With over 400 invited race veterans in attendance for Sunday's denouement, there was one conspicuous absentee.
  • (17) Middlesbrough promoted to the Premier League: five things they must do now Read more That sending off left Chris Hughton’s side – who despite finishing level on points with Boro have a marginally inferior goal difference and must now face the dreaded play-off lottery – with nothing to lose and their desperate attacking urgency made for a tense denouement.
  • (18) And it reaches its usually unseen, often fatal denouement in the waters off northern Libya, as a growing number of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants desperately bids to reach Italy and Greece by sea.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was hard to see Laura cry’, says her mother – video Bassett and the rest of Sampson’s squad must travel back to London via Saturday’s third place playoff against Germany, while Japan will face USA in the following day’s denouement.
  • (20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"

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].

Words possibly related to "denouement"