The difference between Head and Lead

Head as a noun (countable):

The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. To do with heads. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. # Mind; one's own thoughts. #* {{quote-book|lang=en|year=1935|author=[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/288354.George_Goodchild George Goodchild] |title=Death on the Centre Court|chapter=1 |passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis blokewhom the papers are making such a fuss about.”}} # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. #* 1888, , ‘Thrown Away', Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005 edition, page 18, #*: he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the ‘head' that followed after drink. # A headdress; a covering for the head. # An individual person. #* but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame.}} To do with heads. # A single animal. # The population of game. # The antlers of a deer.

Head as a noun (countable):

The topmost, foremost, or leading part. The end of a table. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor. # The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked. The principal operative part of a machine or tool. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer. # The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball. # A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium. # The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data. # The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel. Deposits near the top of a geological succession. The end of an abscess where pus collects. The headstock of a guitar. A leading component. # The top edge of a sail. # The bow of a vessel. A headland.

Head as a noun (social, countable):

A leader or expert. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front. Leader; chief; mastermind. A headmaster or headmistress. A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

Head as a noun (anatomy):

A significant or important part. A beginning or end, a protuberance. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. #* | passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, . In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.}} ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal. ## The leafy top part of a tree. # The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. # The toilet of a ship. # Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. A component. # The principal melody or theme of a piece. # A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.

Head as a noun:

Headway; progress.

Head as a noun:

Topic; subject.

Head as a noun (uncountable):

Denouement; crisis.

Head as a noun (fluid dynamics):

Pressure and energy. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

Head as a noun (slang, uncountable):

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

Head as a noun (slang):

The glans penis.

Head as a noun (slang, countable):

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Head as a noun (obsolete):

Power; armed force.

Head as an adjective:

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Head as an adjective:

Foremost in rank or importance.

Head as an adjective:

Placed at the top or the front.

Head as an adjective:

Coming from in front.

Head as a verb (transitive):

To be in command of. (See also .)

Head as a verb (transitive):

To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball

Head as a verb (intransitive):

To move in a specified direction.

Head as a verb (fishing):

To remove the head from a fish.

Head as a verb (intransitive):

To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

Head as a verb (intransitive):

To form a head.

Head as a verb:

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.

Head as a verb:

To cut off the top of; to lop off.

Head as a verb (obsolete):

To behead; to decapitate.

Head as a verb:

To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.

Head as a verb:

To set on the head.

Lead as a noun (uncountable):

A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).

Lead as a noun (countable):

A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.

Lead as a noun:

A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

Lead as a noun (uncountable, typography):

Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.

Lead as a noun:

Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.

Lead as a noun (plural '''leads'''):

A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

Lead as a noun (countable):

A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.

Lead as a noun (slang):

Bullets; ammunition.

Lead as a verb (transitive):

To cover, fill, or affect with lead

Lead as a verb (transitive, printing, historical):

To place leads between the lines of.

Lead as a verb (transitive):

To guide or conduct. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions. : To direct; to counsel; to instruct To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit. To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).

Lead as a verb (intransitive):

To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.

Lead as a verb:

To begin, to be ahead. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among. To lead off or out, to go first; to begin. To be more advanced in technology or business than others. # To begin a game, round, or trick, with # To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race. # To have the highest interim score in a game. # To step off base and move towards the next base. # To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes. # Lead climb.

Lead as a verb (transitive):

To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure

Lead as a verb (intransitive):

To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.

Lead as a verb:

To produce (with to).

Lead as a verb:

Lead as a noun (uncountable):

The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course

Lead as a noun (uncountable):

Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.

Lead as a noun (UK, countable):

An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

Lead as a noun (baseball):

The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.

Lead as a noun (uncountable, card games, dominoes):

The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played

Lead as a noun (acting):

The main role in a play or film; the lead role.

Lead as a noun (acting):

The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.

Lead as a noun (countable):

A channel of open water in an ice field.

Lead as a noun (countable, mining):

A lode.

Lead as a noun (nautical):

The course of a rope from end to end.

Lead as a noun:

A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash

Lead as a noun:

In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.

Lead as a noun:

Charging lead.

Lead as a noun (civil engineering):

The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

Lead as a noun (horology):

The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.

Lead as a noun:

Hypothesis that has not been pursued

Lead as a noun:

Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.

Lead as a noun (marketing):

Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.

Lead as a noun:

Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.

Lead as a noun (curling):

The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.

Lead as a noun (newspapers):

A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)

Lead as a noun:

An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast

Lead as a noun (engineering):

The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.

Lead as a noun (music):

In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor

Lead as a noun (music):

The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.

Lead as a noun (music):

A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.

Lead as a noun (engineering):

The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.

Lead as a noun (electrical):

The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.

Lead as a noun (electrical):

The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.

Lead as an adjective (not comparable):

Foremost.

Lead as an adjective (music):

main, principal

Lead as a verb: