Noun

(en noun)

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.

Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling]] or [[summarize, summarizing it.

Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.

That column should have the header "payment status".

(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.

Parts of speech belong in a level-three header . Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.

a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher

This wall has four header courses.

a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening

a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc

They fed the bale into the header .

(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with the head

His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.

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, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.}}

a headlong fall or jump

''The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header .

(computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents

The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.

(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors

The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

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.

Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers .

Noun

(en noun)

A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

That old piano is just a big dust collector .

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

A person who is employed to collect payments.

She works for the government as a tax collector .

* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector , and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.

(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

* Addison

Volumes without the collector's own reflections.

(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

(Todd)

(Webster 1913)