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Head (disambiguation)

In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Metaphorically,"Head" may refer to a person who is a leader, supervisor or the like, such as the head of a department in a company, or in a school, college or university, the head of an institution or organization, or the head of state of a country or other sovereign entity.

Head may also refer to:

Science and technology

Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
Head stock, a musical instrument part
An amplifier head, a form of guitar amplifier
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

By analogy, other forms of energy can be expressed in terms of 'head' units, e.g:

*velocity head

*pressure head

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
High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD), a division under the American Astronomical Society

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

Music, film, television

Head (music), the repeated, non-improvised section of a jazz composition that bookends individual solo passages
Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), a song by The Cooper Temple Clause
Head (The Jesus Lizard album), the first full album by The Jesus Lizard
Head (British band), an English rock band of the 1980s
Head (US band), the solo project of former Korn guitarist, Brian Welch
"Head" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
Head (film), a comic film starring The Monkees
Head (The Monkees album), the soundtrack to the film by The Monkees
Head, a song by Static-X from Beneath, Between, Beyond
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
The Head, an animated television series on MTV.

Other

Head (beer), the frothy emulsion of liquid and carbon dioxide at the top of beer
Head, a member of the drug subculture.
Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
Fellatio and cunnilingus are also known as "giving head"
Concurrent Versions System HEAD
Slang for restroom. i.e. "I'm gonna hit the head."
Head (wrestling), Al Snow's mannequin head character
Heads, the obverse side of a coin
HEAD, an [methods|HTTP request method]
Head Shampoo, an all-natural shampoo first made popular in the early 1970s
Head teacher (headmaster or headmistress), sometimes called "the head"
Glans penis, a part of the penis that is colloquially called the "head" in humans

People with the surname Head

Anthony Head (born 1954), English actor and musician
Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head (1906–1983), British Member of Parliament, peer and statesman.
Edith Head, Hollywood costumer of the mid-20th century
Frederick Waldegrave Head (1874–1941), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
Henry Head (1861-1940), English neurologist
Murray Head (born 1946), British actor and singer
Luther Head, NBA basketball player
James W. Head III, notable American biologist and consultant for Newton's Apple