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Heading   /hˈɛdɪŋ/   Listen
Heading

noun
1.
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.  Synonyms: head, header.
2.
The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies.  Synonyms: aim, bearing.
3.
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine.  Synonyms: drift, gallery.



Head

verb
(past & past part. headed; pres. part. heading)
1.
To go or travel towards.  "We were headed for the mountains"
2.
Be in charge of.  Synonym: lead.
3.
Travel in front of; go in advance of others.  Synonym: lead.
4.
Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel.  Synonym: head up.
5.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.  Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer.
6.
Take its rise.
7.
Be in the front of or on top of.
8.
Form a head or come or grow to a head.
9.
Remove the head of.



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"Heading" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand and she had not opened it, remembering what her father had always said of its reputation. But where would she be more likely to find what she wanted than in the columns of a journal whose reporters listened behind doors and peeped through keyholes? Under the heading of 'Les Dessous Parisiens', she read on the ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... surely he was heading off the other horse. They saw him now and a few scattering shots were sent in his direction, but the lad heeded them no more than had they been rain drops. His mind was too fully absorbed with the task he had set ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin

... led to another, with the result that here they were heading toward the lake, and following a dim trail which had been described by an old guide who could not accompany them on account of other ...
— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone

... editors of collections, each separate item to be at the same time sufficiently catalogued under its own heading. ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... the room of good sense By the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises False glory and false modesty He knew how to put a good gloss upon his failings He weighed everything, but fixed on nothing Is there a greater in the world than heading a party? Nothing is so subject to delusion as piety So indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours Verily believed he was really the man which he affected ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Court Memoirs of France • David Widger


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