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Heads vs Meads - What's the difference?

heads | meads |

As nouns the difference between heads and meads

is that heads is or heads can be (slang) high-grade marijuana while meads is .

As an interjection heads

is a shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.

As a verb heads

is (head).

heads

English

Etymology 1

Plural of head.

Interjection

(en-interj)!
  • A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.
    • Synonyms
    * (warning) heads up, fore, timber

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • (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
    • Heads , I win.
  • abbreviation for headphones.
    • Pass me the heads , I wanna listen.
  • (Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a before it is formally introduced to a parliament
  • * 2000s " 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.
  • * 2012 Department of Justice and Equality " 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 ): tails
    Derived terms
    * heads of agreement

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (head)

    • Etymology 3

    head (from the notion that it gives a head high) (possibly either genitive or plural).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) High-grade marijuana.
    • Synonyms
    * (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l)
    Coordinate terms
    * (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)

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    meads

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1954 , , Chapter IX
    • On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west ... Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling meads , and far beyond them hills in the sunset ...

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