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Headlights vs Headline - What's the difference?

headlights | headline |

As nouns the difference between headlights and headline

is that headlights is especially a pair on a single vehicle while headline is a heading or title of an article.

As a verb headline is

(entertainment) to have top billing; to be the main attraction.

headlights

English

Noun

(head)
  • Especially a pair on a single vehicle.

    • headline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heading or title of an article.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
  • (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.
  • (nautical) A headrope.

    • Synonyms

    * (heading) hed * (top-billed attraction) headliner

    Related terms

    (heading) * byline * dateline

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (headlin)
  • (entertainment) To have top billing; to be the main attraction

    • Derived terms

    * headliner