noun
definition
Careful attention.
verb
definition
To guard, protect.
definition
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
definition
To pay attention, care.
Examples of heed in a Sentence
Take heed of being sharp. ..
He paid no heed to the words that were droning on, until a name riveted him to attention.
He paid it no heed, instead fascinated by the feel of her frame.
Arnie clutched at her bloodied hand, too maddened to heed his danger.
It offered them compensation in money, and when this was declined, took no heed of their protests.
No one paid her any heed.
The world seemed to be going from bad to worse, with little heed to his warnings.
With a quick glance to make sure none of his father's men paid him any heed, Taran stole away to the far side of the beach, trailing the barbarian youth.
It did sound as if the Dawkins boys' temporary peace had come to an end, but Dean paid little heed to the raised voices.
But the royal attendants did not heed the animal's ill temper.
Memon paid his son no heed, focused completely on Taran.
Take heed to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost bath made you bishops."
The prophet of Islam was now, however, building up his power in Arabia, and although Heraclius paid no heed to the letter demanding his adhesion which he received from Medina (628), and the deputation of fifteen Rahawiyin who paid homage in 630 were not Edessenes but South Arabians, a few years later (636 ?) Heraclius's attempts, from Edessa as a centre, to effect an organized opposition to the victorious Arabs were defeated by Sa`d, and he fell back on Samosata.
The mass of Boers in the Free State, deluded by a belief in Great Britain's weakness, paid no heed to his remonstrances.
His growl was inhuman, a warning she didn't heed.
She just grunted that all the men looked alike to her and she didn't pay 'no heed.'
For the safety of the child, you should heed these warnings.
Women with small eyes should also heed caution when applying eyeliner.
He instinctively ducked his head but the two were paying no heed to a passing biker as they sped south.
He arrogated to himself the privileges of royalty, made servants attend him upon their knees, compelled bishops to tie his shoelatchets and dukes to hold the basin while he washed his hands, and considered it condescension when he allowed ambassadors to kiss his fingers; he paid little heed to their sacrosanct character, and himself laid violent hands on a papal nuncio.
The view that our knowledge in such cases may be completely represented by means of laws of action at a distance, expressible in terms of the positions (and possibly motions) of the interacting bodies without taking any heed of the intervening space, belongs to modern times.
The new court, if adopted, would hold regular and continuous sessions, consist of the same judges, and pay due heed to the precedents created by its prior decisions.
Verse so merely states that the people gave heed to the magician, verse s s adds why.
How very needful, therefore, it is to give earnest heed to the moral basis on which our prayers are presented.
And then take heed what thou dost account thyself.
That was until I took a holiday and like so many fools before me failed to heed this warning.
He took no heed of the warnings uttered by those sage counsellors, Cambaceres and Talleyrand, against an invasion of Russia, while "the Spanish ulcer" was sapping the strength of the empire at the other extremity.
Prince Bolkonski listened as a presiding judge receives a report, only now and then, silently or by a brief word, showing that he took heed of what was being reported to him.
Take heed when shopping for foods that are billed as healthy.
As Dean had predicted, no one paid them any heed.
He paid her last warning no heed and kissed her neck from beneath her ear to her collarbone.
He paid no heed to them, but began the struggle against the Culebra and the Chagres.
She disguised her beauty as an old man, a ragged peasant, and no one paid heed as she carefully moved up the narrow pathway until she finally reached the edge of the cliff and sighted the spot where Jership the Terrible had secured his line.
The young count paid no heed to them, but, breathing hard, passed by with resolute strides and went into the house.
Hitherto our attention has been given wholly to Germany and France, for the chief ornithologists of Britain were occupying themselves at this time in a very useless way - not paying due heed at this time to the internal structure of birds, and some excellent descriptive memoirs on special forms had appeared from their pens, to say nothing of more than one general treatise on ornithic anatomy.
The meaning, the sentiment, the thought, were the last things to which the Meistersingers gave heed.
The various dynasties of sultans (Buyids, Ghaznevids, Seljuks, and finally the Mongols) never paid heed to the caliphs, and at length abolished them; but the fall of the theocracy only increased the influence of the clergy, the expounders and practical administrators of that legislation of Koran and Sunna which had become part of the life of the Mahommedan world.
Unlike a burned chapati or a statue with moist eyes, we should take heed of it.
This certainly chimes with the message that the British government would like the European Union to heed.
He shall turn back and give heed to those who forsake the holy covenant.
When Cooney chose to heed the request of the fallen leader he was promptly excommunicated from the movement.
Only then did the Serbs start paying heed to outside attempts to make peace.
Perhaps AAT should take heed of ACCA policy with regard to their members?
Many of the poor soldiers gave diligent heed to the word.
At this point beneficence has run riot and autonomy is paid scant heed.
The poor people came quickly together and gave earnest heed to what I said, despite the wind and snow.
But as the war advanced, little heed was taken of the red warning and work proceeded apace.
Riders of these flimsy appliances pay no heed to stop signs or red lights.
To other uses, asserted by some to belong to these objects, he paid little heed.
I did not heed the advice I was given.