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Heart vs. Head — What's the Difference?

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Heart

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs.

Head

The head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste, respectively. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size.

Heart

A hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles.

Head

The upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Heart

The central or innermost part of something
Right in the heart of the city
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Head

A thing resembling a head either in form or in relation to a whole.

Heart

A conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top.

Head

The front, forward, or upper part or end of something.

Heart

The condition of agricultural land as regards fertility
A well-maintained farm in good heart

Head

A person in charge of something; a director or leader
The head of the Dutch Catholic Church

Heart

Like very much; love
I totally heart this song

Head

A person considered as a numerical unit
They paid fifty pounds a head

Heart

The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.

Head

A component in an audio, video, or information system by which information is transferred from an electrical signal to the recording medium, or vice versa.

Heart

A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.

Head

A body of water kept at a particular height in order to provide a supply at sufficient pressure
An 8 m head of water in the shafts

Heart

The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.

Head

A toilet on a ship or boat
They were cleaning out the heads

Heart

The vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities.

Head

The word that governs all the other words in a phrase in which it is used, having the same grammatical function as the whole phrase.

Heart

The repository of one's deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs
An appeal from the heart.
A subject dear to her heart.

Head

A superficial deposit of rock fragments, formed at the edge of an ice sheet by repeated freezing and thawing and then moved downhill.

Heart

The seat of the intellect or imagination
The worst atrocities the human heart could devise.

Head

A group of pheasants
It is easy to get up a head of pheasants with the aid of good keepers

Heart

Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character
A man after my own heart.

Head

Chief; principal
The head waiter

Heart

One's prevailing mood or current inclination
We were light of heart.

Head

Be in the leading position on
The St George's Day procession was headed by the mayor

Heart

Capacity for sympathy or generosity; compassion
A leader who seems to have no heart.

Head

Give a title or caption to
An article headed ‘The Protection of Human Life’

Heart

Love; affection
The child won my heart.

Head

Move in a specified direction
He was heading for the exit
We were headed in the wrong direction

Heart

Courage; resolution; fortitude
The soldiers lost heart and retreated.

Head

Shoot or pass (the ball) with the head
A corner kick that Moody headed into the net

Heart

The firmness of will or the callousness required to carry out an unpleasant task or responsibility
Hadn't the heart to send them away without food.

Head

Lop off the upper part or branches of (a plant or tree)
The willow is headed every three or four years

Heart

A person esteemed or admired as lovable, loyal, or courageous
A dear heart.

Head

(of a lettuce or cabbage) form a head.

Heart

The central or innermost physical part of a place or region
The heart of the financial district.

Head

The uppermost or forwardmost part of the body of a vertebrate, containing the brain and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and jaws.

Heart

The core of a plant, fruit, or vegetable, such as a heart of palm.

Head

The analogous part of an invertebrate organism.

Heart

The most important or essential part
Get to the heart of the matter.

Head

The length or height of such a part
The horse lost by a head. She is two heads taller than he is.

Heart

A conventional two-lobed representation of the heart, usually colored red or pink.

Head

The seat of the faculty of reason; intelligence, intellect, or mind
I did the figuring in my head.

Heart

A red, heart-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

Head

Mental ability or aptitude
She has a good head for mathematics.

Heart

A playing card with this figure.

Head

Freedom of choice or action
Give the child his head and see how well he solves the problems.

Heart

Hearts (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

Head

A habitual drug user. Often used in combination
A dopehead.

Heart

A card game in which the object is either to avoid hearts when taking tricks or to take all the hearts.

Head

An enthusiast. Often used in combination
A chilihead.

Heart

(Slang) To have great liking or affection for
I heart chocolate chip cookies!.

Head

A person considered foolish or contemptible. Often used in combination
A chowderhead.

Heart

(Archaic) To encourage; hearten.

Head

A portrait or representation of a person's head.

Heart

(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

Head

Often heads (used with a sing. verb) The side of a coin having the principal design, often the profile of a political leader's head.

Heart

(uncountable) One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
She has a cold heart.

Head

(Informal) A headache
Had a bad head early this morning.

Heart

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
A good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart

Head

An individual; a person
Charged five dollars a head.

Heart

Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.

Head

Pl. head A single animal
20 head of cattle.

Heart

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

Head

A person who leads, rules, or is in charge; a leader, chief, or director
The head of the corporation.

Heart

(archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Listen, dear heart, we must go now.

Head

A headmaster or headmistress.

Heart

Memory.
I know almost every Beatles song by heart.

Head

The foremost or leading position
Marched at the head of the parade.

Heart

(figurative) A wight or being.

Head

A headwaiter.

Heart

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.

Head

The difference in depth of a liquid at two given points.

Heart

A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

Head

The measure of pressure at the lower point expressed in terms of this difference.

Heart

(cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.

Head

The pressure exerted by a liquid or gas
A head of steam.

Heart

(figurative) The centre, essence, or core.
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.

Head

The liquid or gas exerting the pressure.

Heart

To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

Head

The froth or foam that rises to the top in pouring an effervescent liquid, such as beer.

Heart

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.

Head

The tip of an abscess, boil, or pimple, in which pus forms.

Heart

To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.

Head

A turning point; a crisis
Bring matters to a head.

Heart

To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

Head

A projection, weight, or fixture at the end of an elongated object
The head of a pin.
A head of land overlooking the harbor.

Heart

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!

Head

The working end of a tool or implement
The head of a hammer.

Heart

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; - usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain.

Head

The looped part at the end a lacrosse stick, to which the webbing is attached.

Heart

The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
Exploits done in the heart of France.
Peace subsisting at the heartOf endless agitation.

Head

The part of an explosive device that carries the explosive; a warhead.

Heart

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
Eve, recovering heart, replied.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another.

Head

The part of a stringed instrument where the strings are wound; a tuning head.

Heart

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
That the spent earth may gather heart again.

Head

A tuning machine.

Heart

That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, - used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

Head

The rounded proximal end of a long bone
The head of the femur.

Heart

One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

Head

The end of a muscle that is attached to the less movable part of the skeleton.

Heart

Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
And then show you the heart of my message.

Head

An attachment to or part of a machine that holds or contains the operative device.

Heart

A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

Head

The magnetic head of a tape recorder or VCR.

Heart

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.

Head

The device in a magnetic disk or tape drive that enables it to read data from and write data to the disk or tape.

Heart

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

Head

A rounded compact mass, as of leaves or buds
A head of cabbage.

Heart

The locus of feelings and intuitions;
In your heart you know it is true
Her story would melt your bosom

Head

(Botany) A flower head.

Heart

The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body;
He stood still, his heart thumping wildly

Head

The uppermost part; the top
Place the appropriate name at the head of each column.

Heart

The courage to carry on;
He kept fighting on pure spunk
You haven't got the heart for baseball

Head

The end considered the most important
Sat at the head of the table.

Heart

An area that is approximately central within some larger region;
It is in the center of town
They ran forward into the heart of the struggle
They were in the eye of the storm

Head

Either end of an object, such as a drum, whose two ends are interchangeable.

Heart

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story

Head

The forward part of a vessel.

Heart

An inclination or tendency of a certain kind;
He had a change of heart

Head

The top part or upper edge of a sail.

Heart

A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines;
He drew a heart and called it a valentine

Head

A toilet, especially on a ship.

Heart

A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal);
A five-pound beef heart will serve six

Head

A passage or gallery in a coal mine.

Heart

A positive feeling of liking;
He had trouble expressing the affection he felt
The child won everyone's heart

Head

The top of a book or page.

Heart

A playing card in the major suit of hearts;
He led the queen of hearts

Head

A headline or heading.

Head

A distinct topic or category
Under the head of recent Spanish history.

Head

Headway; progress.

Head

(Linguistics) The word determining the grammatical category of a constituent, often establishing relations of concord or agreement (such as subject-verb agreement) with other constituents.

Head

Vulgar Slang Oral sex.

Head

Of, relating to, or intended for the head. Often used in combination
Headshaking.
Headwrap.

Head

Foremost in rank or importance
The head librarian.

Head

Placed at the top or the front
The head name on the list.

Head

(Slang) Of, relating to, or for drugs or drug users.

Head

To be in charge of; lead
The minister headed the committee.

Head

To be in the first or foremost position of
Collins heads the list of job candidates.

Head

To aim, point, or turn in a certain direction
Headed the team of horses up the hill.

Head

To remove the head or top of.

Head

(Sports) To hit (a soccer ball) in the air with one's head.

Head

To provide with a head
Head each column with a number.
Headed the flagpole with a golden ball.

Head

To proceed or go in a certain direction
Head for town.

Head

To form a head, as lettuce or cabbage.

Head

To originate, as a stream or river; rise.

Head

(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

Head

(people) To do with heads.

Head

(animals) To do with heads.

Head

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?

Head

The end of a table.

Head

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

Head

The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.

Head

(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

Head

(coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.

Head

(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.

Head

Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

Head

(journalism) headline

Head

(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

Head

(music) The headstock of a guitar.

Head

(nautical) A leading component.

Head

(British) A headland.

Head

A leader or expert.

Head

The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

Head

(metonymy) Leader; chief; mastermind.
I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.

Head

(metonymy) A headmaster or headmistress.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.

Head

A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.

Head

A significant or important part.

Head

A beginning or end, a protuberance.

Head

A component.

Head

Headway; progress.
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

Head

Topic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

Head

Denouement; crisis.
These isses are going to come to a head today.

Head

(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.

Head

A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?

Head

The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

Head

More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

Head

Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.

Head

(slang) The glans penis.

Head

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

Head

(obsolete) Power; armed force.

Head

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

Head

Foremost in rank or importance.
The head cook

Head

Placed at the top or the front.

Head

Coming from in front.
Head sea
Head wind

Head

(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
Who heads the board of trustees?
To head an army, an expedition, or a riot

Head

(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
A group of clowns headed the procession.
The most important items headed the list.

Head

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

Head

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
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.
Where does the train head to?

Head

(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

Head

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

Head

(intransitive) To form a head.
This kind of cabbage heads early.

Head

(transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
To head a nail

Head

(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
To head trees

Head

To behead; to decapitate.

Head

To go in front of.
To head a drove of cattle
To head a person

Head

To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

Head

(by extension) To check or restrain.

Head

To set on the head.
To head a cask

Head

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

Head

The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

Head

The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

Head

The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
Your head I him appoint.

Head

The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them.

Head

Each one among many; an individual; - often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head.

Head

The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
Men who had lost both head and heart.

Head

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

Head

A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.

Head

A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

Head

Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption.
The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.

Head

Power; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.

Head

A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.

Head

An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

Head

A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

Head

The antlers of a deer.

Head

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

Head

Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

Head

Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

Head

To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.

Head

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

Head

To behead; to decapitate.

Head

To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

Head

To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

Head

To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

Head

To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.

Head

To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

Head

To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

Head

The upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains;
He stuck his head out the window

Head

A single domestic animal;
200 head of cattle

Head

That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;
His mind wandered
I couldn't get his words out of my head

Head

A person who is in charge;
The head of the whole operation

Head

The front of a military formation or procession;
The head of the column advanced boldly
They were at the head of the attack

Head

The pressure exerted by a fluid;
A head of steam

Head

The top of something;
The head of the stairs
The head of the page
The head of the list

Head

The source of water from which a stream arises;
They tracked him back toward the head of the stream

Head

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

Head

The tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)

Head

The length or height based on the size of a human or animal head;
He is two heads taller than his little sister
His horse won by a head

Head

A dense clusters of flowers or foliage;
A head of cauliflower
A head of lettuce

Head

The educator who has executive authority for a school;
She sent unruly pupils to see the principal

Head

An individual person;
Tickets are $5 per head

Head

A user of (usually soft) drugs;
The office was full of secret heads

Head

A rounded compact mass;
The head of a comet

Head

The foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container;
The beer had a large head of foam

Head

The part in the front or nearest the viewer;
He was in the forefront
He was at the head of the column

Head

A difficult juncture;
A pretty pass
Matters came to a head yesterday

Head

Forward movement;
The ship made little headway against the gale

Head

A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;
The point of the arrow was due north

Head

The subject matter at issue;
The question of disease merits serious discussion
Under the head of minor Roman poets

Head

A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about;
The heading seemed to have little to do with the text

Head

The rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint;
The head of the humerus

Head

That part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves

Head

(computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk

Head

(usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head;
Call heads or tails!

Head

The striking part of a tool;
The head of the hammer

Head

(nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship

Head

A projection out from one end;
The head of the nail
A pinhead is the head of a pin

Head

A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

Head

Oral-genital stimulation;
They say he gives good head

Head

To go or travel towards;
Where is she heading
We were headed for the mountains

Head

Be in charge of;
Who is heading this project?

Head

Travel in front of; go in advance of others;
The procession was headed by John

Head

Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel;
This student heads the class

Head

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Head

Take its rise;
These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas

Head

Be in the front of or on top of;
The list was headed by the name of the president

Head

Form a head or come or grow to a head;
The wheat headed early this year

Head

Remove the head of;
Head the fish

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