Head (disambiguation)
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Head is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Head may also refer to:
- Science and technology
- Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
- Head (linguistics), the main part of a phrase or compound
- Head (geological), recent near surface deposits of uncertain and often heterogeneous origin
- head (Unix), a Unix command that provides the first few lines of a file
- Head (vessel), the end caps on a pressure vessel
- Hydraulic head, the difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure at the lower point
- Cylinder head, the part of an engine over the pistons and cylinders
- Disk read-and-write head, the mechanism responsible for reading and writing magnetic media
- Recording head, the electromagnetic mechanism that translates magnetic and electrical signals to tape
- Marine
- Head (sailing), a sail's uppermost corner or edge
- Head (watercraft), a toilet or latrine of a marine vessel
- Head sail, a jib, spinnaker, or any other sail set forward of the foremost mast
- In music, film, television
- Head (music), the repeated, non-improvised section of a jazz composition that bookends individual solo passages
- "Head" (single), a song by The Cooper Temple Clause
- Head (album), the first full album by The Jesus Lizard
- Head (band), an English rock band of the 1980s
- "Head" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
- Head (film), a comic film starring The Monkees
- Head (soundtrack album), the soundtrack to the film by The Monkees
- "Head" (Prince song), a song by Prince from Dirty Mind
- A song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
- "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
- Drumhead, a membrane on a drum that is hit to create percussive sounds
- Brian Welch, known by the pseudonym "Head", former guitarist of Grammy-award winning band Korn
- Other
- Head (beer), the emulsion of liquid and carbon dioxide at the top of beer
- Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
- Oral sex, also known as "giving head" in reference to the glans of the penis
- Concurrent Versions System HEAD
- Head, Al Snow's mannequin head character
- Heads, the obverse side of a coin
- HEAD, an HTTP request method
[edit] People with the surname Head
- Henry Head
- Murray Head, (born 1946) a British actor and singer
- Frederick Waldegrave Head, (1874–1941) Anglican archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
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