Word family noun head heading overhead header headship adjective overhead heady headless headed verb head behead adverb overhead
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishheaderhead‧er /ˈhedə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 DSFan action in football in which you hit the ball with your head2 TDTOPinformation at the top of a page, especially things such as numbers that appear on each page of a document3 information at the beginning of an email message that shows when it was sent, who wrote it etc → double-headerExamples from the Corpus
header• The amount of encoding in a header will depend both on the nature and the intended use of the text.• The first blow came from a corner and a flying header by Dave Higgins.• A spell checker, word count feature and thesaurus are all included and the program can handle headers and footers.• Kenny, that set-piece specialist, delivered the corner and in came Glendinning, to power the header.From Longman Business Dictionaryheaderhead‧er /ˈhedə-ər/ noun [countable] the line of information at the top of a computer screen or a printed page → compare footer 