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English Dictionary: Header	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Header
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
header n a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" Synonym(s): heading, header, head horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window Synonym(s): header, lintel brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall Synonym(s): header, coping, cope a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Header \Head"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. 2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.] 3. (Arch.) (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. 4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. 5. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
header 1. The portion of a {packet}, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields. 2. The part of an {electronic mail} message or {news} article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent.