HEADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headed mean? 

• HEADED (adjective)
  The adjective HEADED has 4 senses:

1. having a heading or course in a certain direction

2. having a heading or caption

3. having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination

4. of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head

  Familiarity information: HEADED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a heading or course in a certain direction

Context example:

westward headed wagons

Similar:

orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a heading or caption

Context example:

headed notepaper

Antonym:

unheaded (not having a heading or caption)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination

Context example:

a cool-headed fighter pilot

Similar:

bicephalous (having two heads)

burr-headed (having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly))

headlike (having a protuberance that resembles a head)

large-headed (having a large head)

Antonym:

headless (not having a head or formed without a head)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head

Context example:

headed cabbages

Similar:

mature (having reached full natural growth or development)

 Context examples 

“Your red-headed idea was very new and effective.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, sir, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We rushed along the pavement, bare-headed as we were, and at the far corner we found a policeman standing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it passed, Wolf Larsen began to speak, the bare-headed men swaying in unison, to the heave and lunge of the deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Buck held on till he was on a line straight above Thornton; then he turned, and with the speed of an express train headed down upon him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They talked about the sea as a career, a subject which Martin had at his finger-ends, and Mr. Morse remarked afterward that he seemed a very clear-headed young man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He has the reputation of being hot-headed and imperious, but a straight, honest man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was why, being fond and hot-headed, I left the world; and that is why, having had time to take thought, I am right glad to find myself back in it once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before supper was eaten we buried old Tom in the sand and stood round him for a while bare-headed in the breeze.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A two headed (inferior and superior) muscle attached to the mandible that opens the jaw and brings it forward.

(External Pterygoid Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)