Heads vs Heals - What's the difference?
heads | heals |
(nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar
abbreviation for headphones.
(Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a before it is formally introduced to a parliament
* 2000s "
* 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "
(head)
(slang) High-grade marijuana.
(heal)
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
To cover, as for protection.
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
* Bible, Matthew viii. 8
To become better.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
(obsolete) health
As verbs the difference between heads and heals
is that heads is third-person singular of head while heals is third-person singular of heal.As an interjection heads
is a shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.As a noun heads
is plural of lang=en.heads
English
Etymology 1
Plural of head.Synonyms
* (warning) heads up, fore, timberNoun
(head) (p)- Heads , I win.
- Pass me the heads , I wanna listen.
How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:
- Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:
- The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
Antonyms
* (side of coin ): tailsDerived terms
* heads of agreementEtymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
head (from the notion that it gives a head high) (possibly either genitive or plural).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l)Coordinate terms
* (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)Anagrams
*heals
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----heal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
- Bandages allow cuts to heal .
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
* (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recoverDerived terms
* healable * healand, Healand * healer * healthNoun
(-)- (Chaucer)