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noun something that serves as a head, top, or front.
a title or caption of a page, chapter, etc.
a section of the subject of a discourse; a main division of a topic or theme.
the compass direction toward which a traveler or vehicle is or should be moving; course.
an active underground mining excavation in the earth, as a drift or raise being or about to be driven.
Aeronautics . the angle between the axis from front to rear of an aircraft and some reference line, as magnetic north.
Origin of heading First recorded in 1250–1300, heading is from the Middle English word hefding. See head, -ing1
OTHER WORDS FROM heading non·head·ing, noun Words nearby heading headgear, headguard, headhunt, headhunter, headhunting, heading , heading course, heading dog, heading sword, head in the clouds, have one's, head in the sand
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Example sentences from the Web for heading The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.
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But when he saw that all his neighbours were also heading to the stores for stocks, he changed his mind.
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For Jane Doe though, she was heading into yet another nightmare.
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And now many of those Democrats are heading home after long careers in public life, with some losing easily winnable races.
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Seven out of ten Americans think America is heading in the wrong direction.
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I expect my arrival at the office will be the signal for a cloud of dust in which he will disappear, heading for the first train.
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They set forward, heading for the distant high peaks, which were always visible.
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But now came another, not aiming for Webb, but heading for Frayne.
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Much more of this and carloads of men with guns will be heading for the ridge.
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Some were heading down, and others up the valley to cut off her escape; the majority were coming straight for the clumps of trees.
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British Dictionary definitions for heading noun a title for a page, paragraph, chapter, etc
a main division, as of a lecture, speech, essay, etc
mining a horizontal tunnel the end of such a tunnel the angle between the direction of an aircraft and a specified meridian, often due north
the compass direction parallel to the keel of a vessel
the act of heading
anything that serves as a head
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Words related to heading route, description, headline, label, caption, rubric, legend, lemma, descriptor, bearing, direction, angle, point, track, trajectory, aim, way, line