Spearhead vs Ahead - What's the difference?
spearhead | ahead |
The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign).
The leading military unit in an attack.
(lb) A player who initiates attacking moves.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.
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, year=2012
, date=April 21
, author=Jonathan Jurejko
, title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke
, work=BBC Sport
In or to the front; in advance; onward.
Having progressed more.
In the direction one is facing or moving.
in the future, preceding
*{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
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As a noun spearhead
is the pointed head, or end, of a spear.As a verb spearhead
is to drive or campaign ardently for, as an effort, project, etc.As an adverb ahead is
in or to the front; in advance; onward.spearhead
English
(wikipedia spearhead)Noun
(en noun)Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=England played at a tempo in attack that was too much for Bulgaria, with width provided at various times by Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing and Rooney acting as the potent spearhead .}}
Verb
(en verb)- He spearheaded the entire project from day one.
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ahead
English
Adverb
(-)- The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.
- He is far ahead of his class in math.
- Just ahead you can see the cliffs.