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Headward vs Headword - What's the difference?

headward | headword |

As an adjective headward

is {{quote-journal|2001|date=November 23|Paul Tapponnier et al.|Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau|Science|link|doi=10.1126/science.105978|volume=294|issue=5547|pages=1671-1677.

As an adverb headward

is headwards.

As a noun headword is

a word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.

headward

English

(headward erosion)

Adjective

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  • (geology)
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau, Science citation
    • , passage=The highest, flattest, and smoothest part of Tibet (3 ) is the central, Oligo-Miocene plateau, mature but still sheltered, especially in the west, from headward erosion. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 2000, date=June 30, Michael C. Malin & Kenneth S. Edgett, Evidence for Recent Groundwater Seepage and Surface Runoff on Mars, Science citation
    • , passage=[View Larger Version of this Image (130K GIF file)] Discussion The martian landforms resemble terrestrial gullies, which form by a combination of processes, including overland flow, headward sapping (32 ), debris flow, and other mass movements (33 )--all processes that, on Earth, involve the action of water. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 1999, date=August 20, Stanley W. Trimble, Decreased Rates of Alluvial Sediment Storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, 1975-93, Science citation
    • , passage=Even without the structures, there was a morphological feedback: As headward stream channels widened from lateral erosion, new floodplains developed that were lower, fine textured, and vegetated (Fig. 3 ), a condition noted in 1975 (2 ). }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • headwards
  • *{{quote-book, year=1957, author=John L. Cotter, title=New Discoveries at Jamestown, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the river continued to erode the island headward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southern shores where the first settlement had been built, were partly destroyed. }}

    headword

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus
  • (grammar) any word which may be modified by an adjunct
    • In "a very discerning car shopper", "shopper" is the headword .

    Synonyms

    * (grammar) head

    See also

    * ("headword" on Wikipedia) * basic form * canonical form * citation form * dictionary form * lemma