header
pronunciation
How to pronounce header in British English:
UK [ˈhedə(r)]
How to pronounce header in American English:
US [ˈhɛdɚ]
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- Noun:
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- a headlong jump (or fall)
Word Origin
- header (n.)
- "head-first dive or plunge," 1849, from head (n.); as a type of pass or shot with the head in soccer, by 1906. Earlier it meant "executioner, headsman" (mid-15c.).
Example
- 1. It contains a header , footer , and horizontal navigation bar below the header .
- 2. The new protocol incorporates features like multiplexed streams , request prioritization and http header compression .
- 3. Xavi 's corner was met by puyol , and his header sped past neuer .
- 4. In the case of a page header or footer , this division of space might be exactly what 's needed to visually break the page content into logical groups .
- 5. This famously misspelled header typically sent by default with every http request gives a lot of potentially personal information to websites .