Head (disambiguation)
(Redirected from Head (sailing))
The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Head or Heads may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]Albums
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- Heads (Bob James album), 1977
- Head (The Jesus Lizard album), 1990
- Head (The Monkees album), a 1968 soundtrack of the movie
- Heads (Osibisa album), 1972
Songs
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- "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
- "Head" (Prince song)
- "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
- "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath... Between... Beyond...
- "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
- "Head", a song by Lotion from full Isaac
- "Head", a song by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes
- "Head", a song by The Cooper Temple Clause from the album Make This Your Own
- "Head", a song by Don Patterson from the album Mellow Soul
- "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
- "Heads", a song by James from the album Living in Extraordinary Times
Other music
[edit]- Head (band), an English rock band
- The Head (band), an indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
- Head (music), a main theme in jazz
- Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
- Headstock, a part of an instrument
- Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head
Film and television
[edit]- Head (film), a 1968 film starring The Monkees
- Heads (film), a 1994 black comedy about a reporter investigating decapitations
- The Head (1959 film), a German horror film directed by Victor Trivas
- The Head (2003 film), a Russian black comedy
- The Head (1994 TV series), a 1994–1996 American animated television series
- The Head (2020 TV series), a 2020 psychological thriller series
- "Head" (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of Blackadder
- "Head" (American Horror Story), a 2013 episode of the anthology television series
Other arts
[edit]- Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
- Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe
Business
[edit]- Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tennis and other racket sports equipment
- Head Entertainment, a former British entertainment retailer
- Head Records, a British entertainment retailer
- Head Shampoo, an American organic hair product
Computing
[edit]- head (Unix), a UNIX command
- <head>, an HTML document structure element
- HEAD, an HTTP request method
- Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository
Maritime
[edit]- Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
- Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
- Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
- Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
Science
[edit]- Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
- Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
- Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
- Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
- Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
- Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
- High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
- Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
- Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
- Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe
Technology
[edit]- Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
- Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
- Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
- Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
- Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
- Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system
Titles
[edit]- Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
- Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
- Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
- Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
- Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
- Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
- Head, a person who uses psychoactive drugs, such as a cokehead
Other uses
[edit]- Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
- The Head, Queensland, a locality in Australia
- Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
- Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
- Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
- Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
- Head, the flat end of a barrel
- Head, slang for fellatio
- Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
See also
[edit]- Headed (disambiguation)
- Header (disambiguation)
- Heading (disambiguation)
- Heads in heraldry
- All pages with titles beginning with head
- All pages with titles containing head
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