Header

Quick meaning: Header is a noun meaning The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
2. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
3. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
4. (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
5. (programming) Clipping of header file.
6. (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
7. (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

This wall has four header courses.

They fed the bale into the header.

That column should have the header "payment status".

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

Word Forms

• headers
• headering
• headered

Synonyms for header

Depending on context, synonyms include head, heading, bonder, coping, cope, lintel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cope, lintel, coping, caption, heading, headline.

Related Dictionary Tools