The difference between Head and Leader

When used as nouns, head means 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, whereas leader means any person that leads or directs one who goes first one having authority to direct one who leads a political party or group of elected party members.


Head is also verb with the meaning: to be in command of. (see also .).

Head is also adjective with the meaning: of, relating to, or intended for the head.

check bellow for the other definitions of Head and Leader

  1. 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.

    Examples:

    "Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite."

    "The company is looking for people with good heads for business."

    "He has no head for heights."

    "It's all about having a good head on your shoulders."

    "This song keeps going through my head."

    "a laced head; a head of hair"

    "Admission is three dollars a head."

    "200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses"

    "12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves"

    "at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40"

    "a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep"

    "they shot 20 head of quail"

    "we have a heavy head of deer this year"

    "planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves"

  2. 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.

    Examples:

    "What does it say at the head of the page?"

    "During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table."

    "Hit the nail on the head!"

    "The head of the compass needle is pointing due north."

    "Tap the head of the drum for this roll."

    "The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned."

    "Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head."

  3. 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.

    Examples:

    "I'd like to speak to the head of the department."

    "Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night."

    "I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour."

    "Only true heads know this."

  4. 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.

    Examples:

    "The expedition followed the river all the way to the head."

    "Give me a head of lettuce."

    "I've got to go to the head."

    "rfquotek Knight"

  5. Head as a noun:

    Headway; progress.

    Examples:

    "We are having a difficult time making head against this wind."

  6. Head as a noun:

    Topic; subject.

    Examples:

    "We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements."

  7. Head as a noun (uncountable):

    Denouement; crisis.

    Examples:

    "These isses are going to come to a head today."

  8. 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.

    Examples:

    "Let the engine build up a good head of steam."

  9. Head as a noun (slang, uncountable):

    Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

    Examples:

    "She gave great head."

  10. Head as a noun (slang):

    The glans penis.

  11. Head as a noun (slang, countable):

    A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

  12. Head as a noun (obsolete):

    Power; armed force.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Jonathan Swift"

  1. Head as an adjective:

    Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

  2. Head as an adjective:

    Foremost in rank or importance.

    Examples:

    "the head cook"

  3. Head as an adjective:

    Placed at the top or the front.

  4. Head as an adjective:

    Coming from in front.

    Examples:

    "'head sea"

    "'head wind"

  1. Head as a verb (transitive):

    To be in command of. (See also .)

    Examples:

    "Who heads the board of trustees?"

    "to head an army, an expedition, or a riot"

  2. Head as a verb (transitive):

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

  3. Head as a verb (intransitive):

    To move in a specified direction.

    Examples:

    "We are going to head up North for our holiday."

    "We will [[head off]] tomorrow."

    "Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago."

    "Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping."

    "I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business."

    "How does the ship head?"

  4. Head as a verb (fishing):

    To remove the head from a fish.

    Examples:

    "The salmon are first headed and then scaled."

  5. Head as a verb (intransitive):

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

  6. Head as a verb (intransitive):

    To form a head.

    Examples:

    "This kind of cabbage heads early."

  7. Head as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "to head a nail"

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  8. Head as a verb:

    To cut off the top of; to lop off.

    Examples:

    "to head trees"

  9. Head as a verb (obsolete):

    To behead; to decapitate.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  10. 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.

    Examples:

    "to head a drove of cattle"

    "to head a person"

    "the wind heads a ship"

  11. Head as a verb:

    To set on the head.

    Examples:

    "to head a cask"

  1. Leader as a noun (music):

    any person that leads or directs one who goes first one having authority to direct one who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc. a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster

    Examples:

    "Follow the leader."

    "We elected her team leader."

    "synonyms: chief chieftain commander"

    "w Leader of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Commons"

    "w Senate Majority Leader Senate Majority Leader"

    "The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county."

    "synonyms: conductor"

  2. Leader as a noun:

    an animal that leads the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs

    Examples:

    "synonyms: alpha pack leader"

  3. Leader as a noun (botany):

    someone or something that leads or conducts a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story a section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places the drive wheel in any kind of machinery the path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning

    Examples:

    "sense person that leads or conducts synonyms: guide conductor"

    "synonyms: driver drive wheel"