Deader vs Header - What's the difference?
deader | header |
(figuratively, humorous) (dead); or at least more evidently dead.
* 1920 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=131150698&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+Tarzan+the+Untamed,+1920&query=deader&id=BurUnta]
* 1920 , Sinclair Lewis, Main Street [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0KTdN_6ZVqc1HOWGlanRBZU&id=66VaLHf1LY4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=deader&as_brr=1]
(figurative or humorous, informal) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
* 1887 , Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=278572930&textreg=1&query=deader&id=DoyScar]
*:"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
*:"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
*:"Yes, they all went except you and me...
The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling]] or [[summarize, summarizing it.
Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher
a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening
a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc
(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with the head
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a headlong fall or jump
(computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents
(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors
A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system
A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
As nouns the difference between deader and header
is that deader is (figurative or humorous|informal) one who is deceased, or will shortly become so while header is the upper portion of a page (or other) layout.As an adjective deader
is (figuratively|humorous) (dead); or at least more evidently dead.deader
English
Adjective
(head)- He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
- Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."
- The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...
Noun
(en noun)- I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
header
English
Noun
(en noun)- If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
- Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
- That column should have the header "payment status".
- Parts of speech belong in a level-three header . Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
- This wall has four header courses.
- They fed the bale into the header .
- His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
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- ''The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header .
- The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
- The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
- Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers .
