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Title vs Heading - What's the difference?

title | heading |

As nouns the difference between title and heading

is that title is a prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also :Category:Titles while heading is the title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.

As verbs the difference between title and heading

is that title is to assign a title to; to entitle while heading is present participle of lang=en.

title

English

(wikipedia title)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • With his former title greet Macbeth.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
  • (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
  • In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
  • A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
  • The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
  • A publication.
  • A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
  • (mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
  • (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
  • The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
  • A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
  • (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Man City 3-2 QPR , passage=With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title .}}
  • * 1997 , David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
    • Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * abstract of title * end titles * entitle * job title * long title * running title * short title * subtitle * supertitle * surtitle * title character * title track * Torrens title * working title

    Verb

    (titl)
  • To assign a title to; to entitle.

    • 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