(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.
Tank
Definition:
(n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
(n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(3) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(4) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
(5) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(6) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
(7) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
(8) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(9) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(10) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(12) The waterborne origin of these infections highlights the importance of maintaining clean water supplies, especially where storage tanks are used.
(13) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
(14) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(15) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
(16) Computer-processed signals were derived from 20 evenly spaced tank-surface electrodes, and a single, moving, equivalent cardiac dipole generator was optimally fitted to the recorded potentials for each 1-msec sampling interval.
(17) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
(18) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(19) Besides other advantages, the set provides an ICP monitoring, a pump device and a protection of the air filter of the collecting tank for safer transport.
(20) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."