Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun header

7 senses of header

Sense 1
heading, header, head -- (a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text")
       => line -- (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza")

Sense 2
header, lintel -- (horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window)
       => beam -- (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Sense 3
header, coping, cope -- (brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall)
       => brick -- (rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material)

Sense 4
header -- (a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters)
       => beam -- (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Sense 5
header -- (a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon)
       => harvester, reaper -- (farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields)

Sense 6
header -- ((soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head)
       => hit, hitting, striking -- (the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit")

Sense 7
header -- (a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery")
       => jump, jumping -- (the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected")