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Definition: Head Start |
Head StartNoun1. Advantage gained by an early start as in a race: "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Census | Children enrolled in Head Start programs or similar programs sponsored by local agencies to provide preschool education to young children are counted under nursery school or kindergarten as appropriate. (references) |
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Synonym: Head StartSynonym: start (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | But you said he had a two day head start. That he would blend in, disappear. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Head Start (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Smokey Bear helping kids learn about fire prevention at a Head Start Fair.Credit: Lori Cook. | |
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Business | The head start of exporters in Internet related services offers many opportunities for increased sales to Netherlands. (references) | |
Thus they have a big head start on American firms many of whom have arrived in only the past three years or so. However, the newly signed trade pact between the United States and Vietnam will pave the way for U.S. telecom companies to substantially engage in the local market once it is approved by legislative bodies of the two countries. (references) | ||
Economic History | Germany | While competition from local companies in Germany exists, U.S. based firms are often perceived as having more experience in the IT environment and therefore have a head start in the business. (references) |
Hungary | The Commercial Service of the U.S. Embassy can provide a head start to firms seeking an agent or distributor in Hungary through its International Partner Search (IPS) or Gold Key Service program. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I shall urge special methods and special funds to reach the hundreds of thousands of Americans that are now trapped in the ghettos of our big cities and, through Head Start, to try to reach out to our very young, little children. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Head Start, senior nutrition programs, and child welfare programs will not be cut from the levels we proposed last year. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs. |
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Expression using "head start": have a head start on smb.. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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head start | 1,319 |
head start program | 225 |
bureau head start | 83 |
early head start | 59 |
dallas greater head start | 33 |
head start texas | 18 |
california head start | 17 |
project head start | 17 |
head start job | 15 |
dallas head start | 14 |
head start pre school | 13 |
employment head start | 13 |
head start preschool | 13 |
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association head start | 12 |
care day head start | 12 |
florida head start | 11 |
act head start | 8 |
curriculum head start | 7 |
arizona head start | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "head start"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | mít před nìkým náskok (have a head start on smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadhay artstay высокий старт (headstart). (various references) avantaj (advance, advantage, avail, benefit, odds, start, vantage, whip hand), avans (advance, advance payment, allowance, earnest, retainer, retaining fee), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: dearths, hardest, hardset, hastate, hatreds, hatters, shatter, started, tetrads, threads, threats, trashed. | |
-3 letters: arhats, attars, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, derats, earths, hasted, haters, hatred, hatted, hatter, hearts, ratted, reatas, shader, shared, sradha, stared, stated, stater, strata, strath, tarted, tasted, taster, tatars, taters, tetrad, tetras, thetas, thread, threat, trades, treads, treats. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead, areas, arhat, ashed, aster, attar, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deash, death, derat, drats, drest, earth, haars, hades, hadst, haets, hards, hared, hares, harts, haste, hated, hater, hates, heads, heard, hears, heart, heats, herds, rased, rated, rates, rathe, reads, reata, rheas, sadhe, sated, shade, shard, share, shear, sherd, shred, stade, stare, start, state, stead, tahrs, tared, tares, tarts, taste, tatar, tater, tates, tears, teats, testa, teths, tetra, theta, trade, trash, tread, treat, trets, tsade. | |
-5 letters: aahs, area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, dahs, dare, dart, dash, data, date, dear, drat, ears, east, eath, eats, edhs, eras, erst, etas, eths, haar, hade, haed, haes, haet, hard, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, head, hear, heat, herd, hers, hest, hets, rads, rase, rash, rate, rath, rats, read, reds, resh, rest, rets, rhea, sade, sard, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, shad, shat, shea, shed, star, stat, stet, tads, tahr, tare, tars, tart, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, teds, test, teth, tets, thae, that, trad, tret, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: deathtraps. | |
+3 letters: tetradrachms. | |
+4 letters: northeastward, southeastward, straightlaced, trisoctahedra. | |
+5 letters: antiapartheids, northeastwards, radiotherapist, southeastwards, stadtholderate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 64      53 74 61 72 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a d   S t a r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0064      0053 0074 0061 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271677025386678486 |
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