Meaning

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout..

Definitions by Sense

1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
4. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
5. (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
6. (programming) Clipping of header file.
7. (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
8. (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).

Example Sentences

If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.

Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

That column should have the header "payment status".

Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.

The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.

The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

This wall has four header courses.

They fed the bale into the header.

Word Forms

• headers
• hdr
• headering
• headered

Synonyms for header

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When Should You Use Header?

Use header when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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