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The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
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If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.
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Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
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Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.
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Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
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That column should have the header "payment status".
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A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
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Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.
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The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
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The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.
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The first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
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The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
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A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing.
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This wall has four header courses.
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A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
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A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
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They fed the bale into the header.
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The act of hitting the ball with the head.
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His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.
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Someone who heads the ball.
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A headlong fall or jump.
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The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.
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A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
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A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
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Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.
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The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
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One who puts a head on something.