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Heading vs Tittle - What's the difference?

heading | tittle |

As nouns the difference between heading and tittle

is that heading is the title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof while tittle is a small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.

As a verb heading

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Tittle is

{{surname|lang=en}.

heading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
  • (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
  • Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
  • (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
  • (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
  • (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
    • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * subheading

    tittle

    English

    (wikipedia tittle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
  • Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (i) and (j).
  • * 1590 , Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
    • The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .
  • * 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :
    • The words "jot" and "tittle " in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
  • * 1987 , Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance , page xii:
  • *:: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of ") "tittles" )
  • * 2008 , Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters :
    • A tittle' is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two '''tittles'''. Maybe it's a jot and a ' tittle side by side.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Related terms

    * iota * titlo

    See also

    * tittle-tattle * title