1. n. The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and administration.
I had to go and see the headteacher about my attitude.
head
1. 名詞. 頭。
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
その犬の頭を撫でる時には気をつけてね、噛むかもよ。
2. 名詞. （精神活動としての）頭脳。
The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
この会社は、ビジネスに関して頭がいい人材を探している。
He has no head for heights.
彼は高いところが気にならない。
3. 名詞. 考え。
This song keeps going through my head.
この曲が頭の中を回り続けている。
4. 名詞. 冒頭。
What does it say on the head of the page?
5. 名詞. 長方形のテーブルにおける上座。
During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
6. 形容詞. 頭の。
7. 形容詞. 主要な。
The head cook.
8. 形容詞. 最上位を占める。
9. 形容詞. 先頭の。
head sea
head wind
10. 動詞. 他動詞 ～を取り仕切る。
Who heads the board of trustees?
11. 動詞. 他動詞 ヘディングをする。
12. 動詞. 自動詞 へさきを向ける。
13. 動詞. (釣) 頭を執る。
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
鮭はまず頭を取ってから測定される。
head
1. n. 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.
2. n. (people) To do with heads.
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
# The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
# He has no head for heights.
# It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
4. n. # Mind; one's own thoughts.
# This song keeps going through my head.
5. n. # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
6. n. # A headdress; a covering for the head.
# a laced head; a head of hair
7. n. # An individual person.
# Admission is three dollars a head.
8. n. (animals) To do with heads.
9. n. # (measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
# 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
# 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
# at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
# a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
# they shot 20 head of quail
10. n. # The population of game.
# we have a heavy head of deer this year
# planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
11. n. # The antlers of a deer.
12. n. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
13. n. The end of a table.
14. n. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
# During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
15. n. # (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
16. n. The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
17. n. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.
18. n. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
# Hit the nail on the head!
19. n. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.
# The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
20. n. # (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
21. n. # (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
# Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
22. n. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
# The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
23. n. # (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
24. n. # (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
25. n. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
26. n. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
27. n. (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
28. n. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
29. n. (music) The headstock of a guitar.
30. n. (nautical) A leading component.
31. n. # The top edge of a sail.
32. n. # The bow of a vessel.
33. n. (British) A headland.
34. n. (social) A leader or expert.
35. n. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
36. n. 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.
37. n. A headmaster or headmistress.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
38. n. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.
39. n. A significant or important part.
40. n. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
41. n. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
# The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
42. n. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
# Give me a head of lettuce.
43. n. ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
44. n. ## The leafy top part of a tree.
45. n. # (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
46. n. # (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
# I've got to go to the head.
47. n. # (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
48. n. A component.
49. n. # (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
50. n. # (linguistics) 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 memb
51. n. Headway; progress.
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
52. n. Topic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
53. n. Denouement; crisis.
These isses are going to come to a head today.
54. n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
55. n. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
56. n. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
57. n. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
58. n. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
59. n. (slang) The glans penis.
60. n. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
61. n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
62. adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
63. adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
the head cook
64. adj. Placed at the top or the front.
65. adj. Coming from in front.
head sea
principal
1. 形容詞. 主な。主要な。もっとも重要な。
2. 形容詞. (廃語 但し)王子の。
3. 名詞. (finance)元金。元本。
4. 名詞. (North America, Australia, New Zealand)校長。
5. 名詞. (英, Scotland, Canada)学長。
6. 名詞. (法律)（代理人に対して）依頼人。
7. 名詞. (法律)主犯。正犯。
8. 名詞. (music)（オルガンの）主要音栓。
9. 名詞. (architecture, 工学)主構。主材。
principal
1. adj. Primary; most important.
Smith is the principal architect of this design.
The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.
2. adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
3. n. (finance) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.
4. n. (North America, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
5. n. (Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
6. n. (legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf.
My principal sells metal shims.
7. n. (legal) The primary participant in a crime.
8. n. (North America) A partner or owner of a business.
9. n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
10. n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
11. n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
12. n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
13. n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
14. n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
