Headful vs Headless - What's the difference?
headful | headless |
An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.
* 1994 , National Storytelling Association (U.S.), Sheila Dailey, Tales as tools: the power of story in the classroom (page 15)
(genetics) That fills the head of a phage
Without a head; decapitated.
Without a head in the sense of leadership.
(linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
(computing) Running without a user interface; specifically , running without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
* 2003 , William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003 , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-7357-1158-7,
* 2007 , Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook , O’Reilly Media (2008), ISBN 978-0-596-10248-7,
* 2010 , Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-0-596-80730-6,
(of beer) Without a head of foam.
(obsolete) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash.
As adjectives the difference between headful and headless
is that headful is (genetics) that fills the head of a phage while headless is without a head; decapitated.As a noun headful
is an amount of information, emotion, etc present in the mind.headful
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns.
Adjective
(-)headless
English
Adjective
(-)- How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?
- The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
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. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
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- Routers typically run headless , without a keyboard or monitor.
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- This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server
- Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning. — Spenser.