The difference between Head and Point

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.

Point as a noun (archaic):

A discrete division of something. An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture. Condition, state. A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition. A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea. A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful. The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit. A tiny amount of time; a moment. A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position. A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction. A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark. A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half. A note; a tune. A distinguishing quality or characteristic. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. A tenth; formerly also a twelfth. Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc. A unit of scoring in a game or competition. A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud). A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares. a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era). An electric power socket. A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25. A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.

Point as a noun (backgammon):

A sharp extremity. The sharp tip of an object. Any projecting extremity of an object. An object which has a sharp or tapering tip. Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played. A peninsula or promontory. The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force. Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction. The difference between two points of the compass. Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression. A railroad switch. An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking. A tine or snag of an antler. A movement executed with the sabre or foil.

Point as a noun (heraldry):

One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.

Point as a noun (nautical):

A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.

Point as a noun (historical):

A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.

Point as a noun:

Lace worked by the needle.

Point as a noun (US, slang, dated):

An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

Point as a noun:

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

Point as a noun (falconry):

The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.

Point as a noun:

The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.

Point as a noun:

The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.

Point as a noun (medicine, obsolete):

A vaccine point.

Point as a noun (cricket):

In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position. A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover. The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper. The position of the pitcher and catcher. A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To face in a particular direction.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To direct toward an object; to aim.

Point as a verb:

To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To indicate a probability of something.

Point as a verb (ambitransitive, masonry):

To repair mortar.

Point as a verb (transitive, masonry):

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

Point as a verb (stone-cutting):

To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

Point as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To mark with diacritics.

Point as a verb (dated):

To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

Point as a verb (transitive, computing):

To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

Point as a verb (transitive, Internet):

To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

Point as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

To sail close to the wind.

Point as a verb (intransitive, hunting):

To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

Point as a verb (medicine, of an [[abscess]]):

To approximate to the surface; to head.

Point as a verb (obsolete):

To appoint.

Point as a verb (dated):

To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.