Head (disambiguation)
The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
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Head may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Albums
- Heads (Bob James album), 1977
- Head (The Jesus Lizard album), 1990
- Head (The Monkees album), a 1968 soundtrack of the movie
- Heads (Osibisa album), 1972
Songs
- Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), track from Make This Your Own
- "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
- "Head" (Prince song)
- "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
- "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath... Between... Beyond...
- "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
- "Head", a song by Lotion from full Isaac
- "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
- "Heads", a song by James from the album Living in Extraordinary Times
Other music
- Head (band), an English rock band
- The Head (band), an indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
- Head (music), a main theme in jazz
- Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
- Headstock, a part of an instrument
Film and television
- Head (film), a 1968 film starring The Monkees
- Heads (film), a 1994 TV movie
- The Head (film), a 1959 German horror film directed by Victor Trivas
- The Head, a 1994–1996 American animated television series
- "Head" (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of Blackadder
- Head (American Horror Story), a 2013 episode of the anthology television series
Other arts
- Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
- Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe
Companies and brands
- Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
- Head Entertainment, a chain of retail stores
- Head Shampoo, an American organic hair product
Computing
- head (Unix), a UNIX command
- <head>, an HTML document structure element
- HEAD, an HTTP request method
- Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository
Maritime
- Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
- Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
- Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
- Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
Science
- Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
- Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
- Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
- Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
- Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
- Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
- High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
- Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
Technology
- Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
- Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
- Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
- Hydraulic head, a specific measurement of water pressure
- Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
- Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe
- Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
- Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
- Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system
Titles
- Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
- Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
- Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
- Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
- Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
- Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
Other uses
- Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
- Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
- Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
- Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
- Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
- Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head
- Head, the flat end of a barrel
- Head, slang for oral sex
- Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
See also
- Headed (disambiguation)
- Header (disambiguation)
- Heading (disambiguation)
- Heads in heraldry
- All pages with titles beginning with head
- All pages with titles containing head
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