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What (who) is header - definition
header
¦ noun
1. Soccer a shot or pass made with the head.
2. informal a headlong fall or dive.
3. a brick or stone laid at right angles to the face of a wall. Compare with stretcher (in sense 5).
4. (also header tank) a raised tank of water maintaining pressure in a plumbing system.
5. a line or block of text appearing at the top of each page of a book or document.
Header
·noun A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
II. Header ·noun One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
III. Header ·noun One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, ·etc., ·esp. a machine for heading.
IV. Header ·noun A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
V. Header ·noun A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.
VI. Header ·noun In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
header
(headers)
1.
In football, a header is the act of hitting the ball in a particular direction with your head.
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2.
A header is text such as a name or a page number that can be automatically displayed at the top of each page of a printed document. Compare footer
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Examples of use of header
1. Egypt striker Mido hit the woodwork with a header after the interval and Pascal Chimbonda‘s header was cleared off the line by Luis Boa Morte and Heidar Helguson.
2. On 11 minutes, Sissoko‘s header in midfield was nodded down by Cisse for Steven Gerrard‘s header into the path of Crouch.
3. You can usually envisage every England goal – a Beckham set piece and a header, a Beckham cross and a Crouch header or long shots from Lampard and Gerrard.
4. Somehow, the final header of his career got missed.
5. To his horror, his diving header flew into the net.