heading

[ hed-ing ]

noun

1. something that serves as a head, heads, top, or front.
2. a title or caption of a page, chapter, etc.
3. a section of the subject of a discourse; a main division of a topic or theme.
4. the compass direction toward which a traveler or vehicle is or should be moving; course.
5. an active underground mining excavation in the earth, as a drift or raise being or about to be driven.
6. Aeronautics. the angle between the axis from front to rear of an aircraft and some reference line, as magnetic north.

heading

/ ˈhɛdɪŋ /

noun

1. a title for a page, paragraph, chapter, etc
2. a main division, as of a lecture, speech, essay, etc
3. mining
   1. a horizontal tunnel
   2. the end of such a tunnel
4. the angle between the direction of an aircraft and a specified meridian, often due north
5. the compass direction parallel to the keel of a vessel
6. the act of heading
7. anything that serves as a head

Other Words From

• non·heading noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of heading¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, heading is from the Middle English word hefding. See head, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

If they’ve now crystallized for Hand as a product of decreased velocity, that seems like a positive heading into the second half of his career.

From Washington Post

You might also want to pick Text only under Change what you hear, otherwise the narration will include all the menus and window headings.

From Popular-Science

Searchers like to skim headings to determine whether an article is one with which they want to engage.

From Search Engine Land

“There’s all sorts of ways to set and maintain a heading,” says marine biologist Nathan Putman, who studies navigation in sea turtles and salmon.

From Nautilus

In “Parklandia,” they share tips, history and comic pratfalls under such clever headings as “The Mary-Kate and Ashley of Arches National Park” and “Abe Lincoln Is the Beyoncé of Gettysburg National Military Park.”

From Washington Post

The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.

From The Daily Beast

But when he saw that all his neighbours were also heading to the stores for stocks, he changed his mind.

From The Daily Beast

For Jane Doe though, she was heading into yet another nightmare.

From The Daily Beast

And now many of those Democrats are heading home after long careers in public life, with some losing easily winnable races.

From The Daily Beast

These groups turn out in greater numbers in presidential elections, giving Democrats a presumptive advantage heading into 2016.

From The Daily Beast

And seeing this bunch is heading right toward us, we might as well take it easy here till they come up.

From Project Gutenberg

The car moved away, swinging to the right across the traffic stream and clearly heading for old Bond Street.

From Project Gutenberg

And he has been an espion of the Government in Portugal; what better training could he have for heading an army of traitors?

From Project Gutenberg

He spurted, took the car half way down the block, heading in the very direction from which Black Hood was coming.

From Project Gutenberg

They burst out of the mouth of the canyon, a smoke-wreathed whirlwind, heading for the protection of the river.

From Project Gutenberg

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