(n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
(n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
(n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
(n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
(n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(2) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(3) There was no chance of Visca relenting and in the 32nd minute he crossed for Zukanovic, whose weak header was saved easily by Darren Randolph.
(4) It was a wonderful piece of close control from Cassano, taking out two defenders in one movement, and Balotelli was quicker and more decisive than his marker, Holger Badstuber, to flash his header past Neuer.
(5) The Dozen: the weekend's best Premier League photos Read more The visitors scored late on through Mame Biram Diouf’s header but had chances before and after having played with great intent and togetherness, with Diouf guilty of missing two good chances in the first half alone.
(6) The goalkeeper then had to paw out another Carroll header.
(7) There were flickers for Alberto Moreno and Origi straight away, Lallana looped a header off target and Jordan Henderson got the better of Aké before seeing Heurelho Gomes tip over his shot.
(8) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
(9) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
(10) Karol Mets had moved back from midfield to take Klavan’s position and it was tempting to wonder whether England’s night would be engulfed in frustration when Chambers picked out Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the six-yard area and the substitute could not get a clean contact on his header.
(11) Belgium were playing a more patient passing game now and, when Origi hit the bar with a header from Mertens’ diagonal cross, it began to look unlikely that the USA would be able to hold out.
(12) The second, a free header from Martin Kelly off Bellamy's free-kick, was softly shipped.
(13) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
(14) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(15) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(16) This was similar, particularly given that, after all their early endeavour, an amateurish mistake undermined them before the half-hour mark as Aldo Simoncini tripped over his team-mate Luca Tosi’s foot in the six-yard box to allow Phil Jagielka to loop a free header into the gaping net.
(17) Robert Lewandowski wins the aeriel duel but is unable to control his header and sends the ball high and wide.
(18) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
(19) Saúl gave the ball away to John Guidetti who powered home a 25-metre drive and Correa struck the crossbar at the other end before Hernández got his second with a header from Hugo Mallo’s cross.
(20) Everton would really have been left kicking themselves had he found the target with his simplest chance, a free header from a corner five minutes from time.
Hearer
Definition:
(n.) One who hears; an auditor.
Example Sentences:
(1) They provide reassuring information about voices, suggest coping strategies, organize peer-support groups for young voice hearers, and emphasize hopeful messages, including the fact that a lot of people hear voices and lead happy, fulfilling lives.
(2) The normal hearers were tested in 4-, 8-, and 16-directions, and the hearing-impaired patients were tested in only 8-directions.
(3) Two views of bilingualism are presented--the monolingual or fractional view which holds that the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person, and the bilingual or wholistic view which states that the coexistence of two languages in the bilingual has produced a unique and specific speaker-hearer.
(4) Noise levels ranging from 35 to 110 dB SPL were presented to 8 normal hearers.
(5) This suggests that HFA either send random intonation signals to hearers or else demonstrate systematic misuse of the linguistic system.
(6) Ohala (1974, 1981a) has proposed that sound changes can originate in hearers' misinterpretations of synchronic phonetic patterns.
(7) The present investigation examined psychophysically the frequency-specific and nonlinear attenuation of sound energy provided by middle ear muscle contraction in normal hearers.
(8) They then indicated exactly what they would say in each situation and what their perceptions of the request size, the hearer's power, and the closeness of their relationship with the hearer were.
(9) All passages are of equal intelligibility for the average normal hearer.
(10) Initially, performance-intensity functions were obtained for both normal hearers, and those with high frequency sensorineural hearing loss.
(11) In the present study, speech-recognition performance was measured in four hearing-impaired subjects and twelve normal hearers.
(12) The question addressed in this study is whether normal hearers with a hearing loss simulated through a shaped masking noise demonstrate speech-recognition difficulties similar to those of listeners with actual hearing impairment.
(13) The conservation is segmented into single utterances (units of analysis) within which so called speaker-relevant control signs (tags, questions, speech pauses) as well as listener-relevant control signs (hearer signals) are defined and localized.
(14) Brain-stem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) were recorded both to rarefaction and condensation click stimuli in 92 normal hearers and 78 patients with varying degrees of cochlear hearing loss (N = 340 ears).
(15) Thresholds were measured under earphones and in two sound fields for 6-11 normal hearers at six test frequencies.
(16) Normal Hearers The rate of correct answers decreased with increasing directions of sound.
(17) Difference tone levels were estimated in four normal hearers using a 2AFC adaptive temporal gap-masking paradigm.
(18) The over-hearer was a private citizen – Tom Matzzie, an entrepreneur who previously worked for MoveOn.org and John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
(19) Audio versions of the test have been developed for use with normal hearers (CST version 1), and for hearing-impaired listeners (CST version 2).
(20) For experiment II, normal hearers listened to consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllables filtered to match the mean audiometric configuration of the noise-exposed subjects in experiment I.