heading
['hediŋ]
n. 标题, 起始,

[] 标题

1. What heading do these items fall under?
   项应标题?
2. What heading does this come under?
   编什麽标题?
3. Be careful with your spacing or you won't get the heading on one line.
   意隔, 否标题排.

heading
[ noun ]

1. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

<noun.communication>
the heading seemed to have little to do with the text

2. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

<noun.location>

3. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

<noun.artifact>
they dug a drift parallel with the vein

Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Headed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Heading}.]
1. 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. --Dryden.

2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to
head a nail. --Spenser.

3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] --Shak.

4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

5. 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.

6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

{To head off}, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer
heads off a thief who is escaping. ``We'll head them off
at the pass.''

{To head up},
(a) to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.
(b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of
investigators.
[1913 Webster +PJC]


Heading \Head"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads;
formation of a head.

2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a
paper.

3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

4. (Mining, tunneling)
(a) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; the vein above a
drift.
(b) The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face
at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from
which the work is advanced.
[1913 Webster +RH]

5. (Sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line
of stitch.

6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented
outward. --Knight.

{Heading course} (Arch.), a course consisting only of
headers. See {Header}, n. 3
(a) .

{Heading joint}.
(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at
right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same
course.