English noun: heading |
1. | heading (communication) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about |
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| Samples | The heading seemed to have little to do with the text.
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| Synonyms | head, header |
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| Broader (hypernym) | line |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | crosshead, crossheading, headline, lemma, newspaper headline, rubric, rubric, running head, running headline, statute title, subhead, subheading, title |
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2. | heading (location) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies |
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| Synonyms | aim, bearing |
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| Broader (hypernym) | direction, way |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | tack |
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3. | heading (artifact) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine |
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| Samples | They dug a drift parallel with the vein.
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| Synonyms | drift, gallery |
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| Broader (hypernym) | passageway |
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| Domain category | excavation, mining |
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