Meaning of HEADING
| Pronunciation: | | 'heding
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- [n] (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- [n] 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"
- [n] the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
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| | Synonyms: | | aim, bearing, drift, gallery, head, header |
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| | See Also: | | crosshead, crossheading, direction, headline, lemma, line, newspaper headline, passageway, rubric, running head, running headline, statute title, subhead, subheading, tack, title, way | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Head"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads;
formation of a head.
2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a
paper.
3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4. (Mining.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the
end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
5. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line
of stitch.
6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented
outward. --Knight.
{Heading course} (Arch.), a course consisting only of
headers. See {Header}, n. 3
(a) .
{Heading joint}.
(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at
right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same
course.
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