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Head Start

Definition: Head Start

Head Start

Noun

1. 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.
 



Specialty Definitions: Head Start

DomainDefinitions

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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Specialty Definition: Head Start

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Head Start is a program of the US government's Department of Health and Human Services which focuses on assisting low-income children, through five years of age; so that they are prepared for school.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Head Start."

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Synonym: Head Start

Synonym: start (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Head Start

English words defined with "head start": even. (references)
Specialty definitions using "head start": ACID FILLER, ASSEMBLER, SEMICONDUCTORBRICK SETTER OPERATOR, BUCKLE-FRAME SHAPER, button-tufting-machine operatorCARD CUTTER, JACQUARD, CD-REACTOR OPERATOR, chop-and-frame operator, control codeDETONATOR ASSEMBLER, drawing tender, DRAWING-FRAME TENDER, DYED-YARN OPERATORFILLING-AND-STAPLING-MACHINE OPERATORIRRIGATOR, HEADMAGAZINE REPAIRER, MARKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, microelectronics processor, MILLING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR I, MILLING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR II, misdraw hand, MVA-REACTOR OPERATORPATTERN-LEASE INSPECTOR, piano-machine operator, PIPE-CLEANING-AND-PRIMING-MACHINE OPERATOR, printing-plate routerrand butter, rand-butting-machine operator, RUBBER-MILL OPERATORSANDWICH-MACHINE OPERATOR, School,, sector interleave, SETTER, COLD-ROLLING MACHINE, SHRIMP-PEELING-MACHINE OPERATOR, stacker operator, supervisor, irrigationTICKET PRINTER AND TAGGER, TINNING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOP POLISHER, TUFTING-MACHINE OPERATORWELT BUTTER, MACHINE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Head Start

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Head Start

DomainTitle

Books

  • After 33 Years and $30 Billion, Time to Find Out If Head Start Produces Results [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Get a Head Start at the Library (Pamphlet) (reference)

  • I Can Print: Get a Head Start on Being Smart With 33 Colorful Stickers: Grades K-1 (Golden Step Ahead) (reference)

  • Into Adulthood: A Study of the Effects of Head Start (reference)

  • Rich Dad's Rich Kid Smart Kid: Giving Your Child a Financial Head Start [ABRIDGED] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Head Start Agency Master Reference Guide (reference)

  • National Head Start Association Associate Membership (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Head Start

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Head Start

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Smokey Bear helping kids learn about fire prevention at a Head Start Fair.Credit: Lori Cook.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Head Start

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Speeches: Head Start

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I 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

1981-1989Head Start, senior nutrition programs, and child welfare programs will not be cut from the levels we proposed last year.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Head Start

Expression using "head start": have a head start on smb.. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Head Start

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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

georgia head start

13

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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Modern Translations: Head Start

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

   

Russian 

  

высокий старт (headstart). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Head Start

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Head Start


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 61 64      53 74 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#116

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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