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English
Pronunciation
Verb
heading
- present participle and gerund of head
Noun
heading (plural headings)
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
put the information under the "Advantages" heading
- (nautical and aeronautical) 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, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. Synonym:roadway.
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
Derived terms
Translations
title
- Arabic: عُنْوَان (ar) m (ʕunwān)
- Belarusian: загало́вак m (zahalóvak), ру́брыка f (rúbryka), на́дпіс m (nádpis)
- Bulgarian: загла́вие (bg) n (zaglávie)
- Catalan: títol (ca) m
- Chichewa: mutu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 標題/标题 (zh) (biāotí), 題目/题目 (zh) (tímù)
- Czech: nadpis (cs) m, záhlaví (cs) n
- Danish: overskift c
- Dutch: kop (nl) m
- Finnish: otsikko (fi)
- French: titre (fr) m
- German: Überschrift (de) f
- Greek: επικεφαλίδα (el) f (epikefalída), τίτλος (el) m (títlos)
- Hungarian: címsor (hu)
- Irish: rúibric f, ceannscríbhinn f, ceannteideal m, mírcheann m
- Japanese: 見出し (ja) (みだし, midashi), 題目 (ja) (だいもく, daimoku), 表題 (ja) (ひょうだい, hyōdai)
- Korean: 표제(標題) (ko) (pyoje), 제목(題目) (ko) (jemok)
- Macedonian: заглавие n (zaglavie), наслов m (naslov)
- Plautdietsch: Äwaschreft f
- Polish: nagłówek (pl) m, rubryka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cabeçalho (pt) m, manchete (pt) f
- Russian: заголо́вок (ru) m (zagolóvok), загла́вие (ru) n (zaglávije), ру́брика (ru) f (rúbrika), на́дпись (ru) f (nádpisʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на́слов m
- Roman: náslov (sh) m
- Slovak: nadpis m, záhlavie n
- Slovene: naslov (sl) m
- Turkish: başlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: за́головок (uk) m (záholovok), заголо́вок (uk) m (zaholóvok), ру́брика f (rúbryka), на́пис m (nápys), на́дпис m (nádpys)
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References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
heading f (definite singular headinga, indefinite plural headingar, definite plural headingane)
- Alternative spelling of hedding