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heading (enc)

Heading

Noun1.heading - 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"
crosshead, crossheading - a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text
headline, newspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper article
lemma - the head of an annotation or gloss
rubric - a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
running head, running headline - a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book
subhead, subheading - a heading of a subdivision of a text
statute title, title, rubric - a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with; "Title 8 provided federal help for schools"
line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"
2.heading - the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
direction, way - a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
tack - the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
3.heading - a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
passageway - a passage between rooms or between buildings

 

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