What's the difference between heading and standfirst?
Heading
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Head
(n.) The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
(n.) That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
(n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
(n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
(n.) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
(n.) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
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].
Standfirst
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The original article's standfirst said Mark Ravenhill was a Family Guy and Will & Grace writer.
(2) It mistakenly referred to National Rail instead of Network Rail in the standfirst.
(3) The standfirst (summary) incorrectly quoted Alex Jones talking about "1778 commencing again".
(4) • This article was changed on Tuesday 10 June 2014 to amend the standfirst.
(5) • The standfirst on this story was amended on 27 September 2013 to remove an incorrect reference to the UK information officer
(6) • The standfirst of this article was corrected on Sunday 15 December 2013 because it stated that Andy Murray was the first Briton to win Wimbledon since 1936.
(7) In the standfirst we mistakenly said the assault had taken place in New York when it was in fact Washington.
(8) The standfirst in the original said "over half of Britain's schools" where over half of England's was meant.
(9) • The standfirst of this article was changed on 7 March 2016 to better reflect the content of the story.
(10) An editing error in the standfirst suggested that the world population would grow to 9 million by 2050.
(11) The standfirst of this article was modified on 14 October 2015 to remove ambiguity.
(12) But 48 hours with Mrs Merkel and he’s already repeatedly committing to open door immigration again.” • The standfirst on this article was amended on 8 January 2015 to better reflect the story.
(13) It originally said there were 250 evictions every day in 2015 in the standfirst.
(14) • The standfirst on this article was corrected on 12 July 2013; F-16 jets, not F-14s, were supplied to Egypt.
(15) The standfirst (summary) of the original incorrectly stated that photographs could could fetch up to £50,000.
(16) • This article was originally published by the Birmingham Post , where Bill Drummond is writing a weekly column as part of his three-month residency at Eastside Projects, Digbeth • The standfirst of this article was amended on Friday 9 May 2014 to more accurately reflect the piece
(17) The standfirst of the original incorrectly stated that the shooting happened at a California health club, instead of an office Christmas party for employees of San Bernardino County health department.
(18) • This article was amended on 21 June 2012 to remove a misplaced apostrophe in the standfirst.
(19) Someone has to be in control of it because if not the strongest will take over.” This article was amended on 3 April to modify the headline and standfirst.
(20) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.