Head (disambiguation) explained
The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Head or Heads may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
- "Head" (Prince song)
- "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
- "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath... Between... Beyond...
- "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
- "Head", a song by Lotion from full Isaac
- "Head", a song by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes
- "Head", a song by The Cooper Temple Clause from the album Make This Your Own
- "Head", a song by Don Patterson from the album Mellow Soul
- "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
- "Heads", a song by James from the album Living in Extraordinary Times
Other music
Film and television
Other arts
- Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
- Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe
Companies and brands
Computing
- head (Unix), a UNIX command
- <head>, an HTML document structure element
- HEAD, an HTTP request method
- Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository
Maritime
- Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
- Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
- Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
- Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast
Science
- Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
- Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
- Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
- Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
- Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
- Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
- High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
- Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
- Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
- Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe
Technology
- Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
- Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
- Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
- Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
- Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system
Titles
Other uses
- Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
- The Head, Queensland, Australia
- Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
- Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
- Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
- Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
- Head, the flat end of a barrel
- Head, slang for fellatio
- Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
See also