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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