Head (disambiguation)

In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part (from anatomical position) that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Metaphorically,"Head" may refer to a person who is a leader, supervisor or the like, such as the head of a department in a company, or in a school, college or university, the head of an institution or organization, or the head of state of a country or other sovereign entity.

Head may also refer to:

Science and technology
* Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
* Head stock, a musical instrument part
* An amplifier head, a form of guitar amplifier
* Head (linguistics), the main part of a phrase or compound
* Head (geological), recent near surface deposits of uncertain and often heterogeneous origin
* head (Unix), a Unix command that provides the first few lines of a file
* Head (vessel), the end caps on a pressure vessel
* Hydraulic head, the difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure at the lower point:By analogy, other forms of energy can be expressed in terms of 'head' units, "e.g"::*velocity head:*pressure head
* Cylinder head, the part of an engine over the pistons and cylinders
* Disk read-and-write head, the mechanism responsible for reading and writing magnetic media
* Recording head, the electromagnetic mechanism that translates magnetic and electrical signals to tape
* High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD), a division under the American Astronomical Society

Marine
* Head (sailing), a sail's uppermost corner or edge
* Head (watercraft), a toilet or latrine of a marine vessel
* Head sail, a jib, spinnaker, or any other sail set forward of the foremost mast

Music, film, television
* Head (music), the repeated, non-improvised section of a jazz composition that bookends individual solo passages
* Head (The Cooper Temple Clause song), a song by The Cooper Temple Clause
* Head (The Jesus Lizard album), the first full album by The Jesus Lizard
* Head (British band), an English rock band of the 1980s
* Head (US band), the solo project of former Korn guitarist, Brian Welch
* "Head" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom "Blackadder II"
* "Head" (film), a comic film starring The Monkees
* Head (The Monkees album), the soundtrack to the film by The Monkees
* Head, a song by Static-X from "Beneath, Between, Beyond"
* Head (Prince song), a song by Prince from "Dirty Mind"
* A song by Mark Lanegan from "Bubblegum"
* "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from "The Xenon Codex"
* Drumhead, a membrane on a drum that is hit to create percussive sounds
* Brian Welch, known by the pseudonym "Head", former guitarist of Grammy-award winning band Korn
* The Head, an animated television series on MTV.

Other
* Head (beer), the frothy emulsion of liquid and carbon dioxide at the top of beer
* Head, a member of the drug subculture.
* Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of sports equipment
* Fellatio and cunnilingus are also known as "giving head"
* Concurrent Versions System HEAD
* Slang for restroom. i.e. "I'm gonna hit the head."
* Head (wrestling), Al Snow's mannequin head character
* Heads, the obverse side of a coin
* HEAD, an HTTP request method
* Head Shampoo, an all-natural shampoo first made popular in the early 1970s
* Head teacher (headmaster or headmistress), sometimes called "the head"
* Glans penis, a part of the penis that is colloquially called the "head" in humans

People with the surname Head

* Anthony Head (born 1954), English actor and musician
* Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head (1906–1983), British Member of Parliament, peer and statesman.
* Edith Head, Hollywood costumer of the mid-20th century
* Frederick Waldegrave Head (1874–1941), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
* Henry Head (1861-1940), English neurologist
* Murray Head (born 1946), British actor and singer
* Luther Head, NBA basketball player
* James W. Head III, notable American biologist and consultant for "Newton's Apple"

ee also

* [http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/h/head/ Head Surname DNA Project]
* tête, head in French, disambiguation page