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Forkhead vs Forehead - What's the difference?

forkhead | forehead |

As nouns the difference between forkhead and forehead

is that forkhead is (obsolete) an arrow with a barbed tip while forehead is the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

forkhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite [...].
  • (biochemistry) A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA
  • forehead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
  • *1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) , Macmillan
  • *:'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead , whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

    Synonyms

    * brow