Headline

Definitions: Headline

Headline

Noun

1. The heading or caption of a newspaper article.

Verb

1. Publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline.

2. Provide with a headline, as of a newspaper page or a story.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "headline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

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

Synonym: Headline

Writing

Stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink.

Crosswords: Headline

You're dead on contact. The headline in the Post the next day reads, Man killed by best friend. (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary)

And for you it is a propaganda victory -- my name is worth a headline. (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones)

Let's get this straightened out right now. If you're nursing any silly notion that I'm interested in you, forget it. You're just a headline to me. (It Happened One Night; writing credit: Samuel Hopkins Adams; Robert Riskin)

Headline scripts ("Jenny From The Block"; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

As the headline says you're free to choose ("Sowing The Seeds of Love"; performing artist: Tears For Fears)

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? (references; author: unknown)

Headline Hunters (1972)

Broadway to Hollywood Headline Clues (1949)

Headline Bands (1946)

The Headline Woman (1935)

Headline Shooter (1933)

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

Books

• Anna Karenina (Hodder Headline Audio Books) (reference)

• Exercises in Line Editing and Headline Writing for Use With Principles of Editing: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Journalists (reference)

• Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (Communications, Media, and Culture Series) (reference)

• Mansfield Park (Hodder Headline Audio Books) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• The Accidental Headline (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Headline Stories of the 20th C (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Headline (reference)

• Headline News (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Headline Studio 1.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mikasa Headline 20-Piece Dinnerware Set, Service for 4 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

The headline coast is clear.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

He had tried to spell out the headline for himself though he knew already what it was for it was the last of the book.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

M-Cell, the holding company of MTN and Orbicom, is hoping to implement new technologies and win new contracts in the next few years to sustain a 102% rise in headline earnings a share. (references)

Economic History

Japan

This was the ninth stimulus package with a headline grabbing spending figure since 1992. These measures put a floor under the recession, but economic recovery remains hesitant, with a significant improvement in private consumption yet to appear. (references)

Australia

The overall effect of these changes was to raise the inflation rate from its trend level between 2 and 3 percent p.a., to 6 percent by the end of 2000. Over time, this price spike will flow through the system, and the headline inflation rate should return to its previous trend level by the end of 2001. (references)

Croatia

Headline unemployment, defined by those collecting monthly unemployment benefits, hit an all-time high of almost 23 percent in early 2001. A more internationally-accepted method of measuring unemployed, a biannual International Labor Organization employment survey, usually puts unemployment about seven percentage points below headline unemployment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "headline": banner headline ♦ headline news ♦ Headline Task Force ♦ headline typesetter ♦ newspaper headline ♦ running headline ♦ splash headline ♦ streamer headline. Additional references.

Beginning with "headline": headline-catching, headline-grabber, headline-grabbing, headline-hitting, headline-hugging, headline-hunters, headline-makers, headline-making, headline-seizing, headline-writers.

Ending with "headline": co-headline, newspaper-headline.

Albanian

vë titull, titull artikulli, reklamë (ad, advertisement, circular, commercial, commercial break, dodger, plug, poster, prospectus, publicity, reclame, show card), kokë e gjallë (heading). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنوان رئيسي (streamer), ‏الخط الرئيسى, ‏رأسية المقال الصحفى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рекламирам (advertise, advertize, boom, boost, promote, publicize, puff, push, quack, sell), титул, заглавие (designation, heading, headword, title), давам като заглавие. (various references)

Chinese 

標題 (caption, heading, subject, title), � �题 (heading, title). (various references)

Czech

titulek (caption, subtitle), nadpis (caption, heading, inscription, superscript, superscription, title). (various references)

Danish

overskrift (caption, head, heading). (various references)

Dutch

opschrift (caption, descriptive marking, fascia, fascia board, front strip, head, header, heading, placard, stamp, superscription, title), kopstuk (heading, post, strut). (various references)

Farsi 

سرصفحه (Head), عنوان سرصفحه روزنامه , عنوان (Address, Caption, Epithet, Head, Rubric, Surname, Title, Topic). (various references)

Finnish

otsikko (block header, caption, head, header, heading, pediment, subject, title). (various references)

French

titre (head, heading), manchette, gros titre, en-tête (head, header, heading, table heading). (various references)

German

schlagzeile (catch-line, flag, masthead), Titelzeile (head line), Kopfzeile (header, title, topline), Überschrift (caption, head, header, heading, superscription, title). (various references)

Greek 

επικεφαλίδα (caption, entry word, filing word, head, heading, title page). (various references)

Hebrew 

ראש עמו�" (caption). (various references)

Hungarian

hírösszefoglalás, feltûnõ formában közöl, újságcím. (various references)

Italian

titolo (appellation, caption, certificate, content, count, evidence of title, fibre count, fineness, gauge, head, heading, investment in securities, normality, note, sake, security, share, stock, strength, table heading, titer, title, title page, titre, titular, yardage), intestazione (caption, head, header, heading, indice, notehead, registration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

標題 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょう� い (index, title). (various references)

Korean 

표� � (heading). (various references)

Manx

kione-linney. (various references)

Norwegian

overskrift (caption). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadlinehay

Portuguese

título (caption, certificate, charter, deed, degree, designation, draft, evidence of title, fibre count, fineness, floating, hank, heading, investment in securities, lettering, name, security, stock, strength, title, titre, yardage), chamada (call, calling, dialing, dialling, ringing, roll call), carcaça para faróis, cabeçalho (billhead, degree, head, header, heading, leader, magnetic tape trailer, superscription, title, trailer). (various references)

Russian 

заголовок (banner, banner headline, caption, head, header, heading, leader, rubric, title). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naslov (caption, heading, rubric, title), istaći (accentuate, distinguish, feature, highlight, point up, post, set off, take, underlain), dati glavnu ulogu. (various references)

Spanish

encabezamiento (block header, caption, fatherhood, generality, head, header, heading, headland, salutation). (various references)

Swedish

rubrik (caption, column, head, header, heading, rubric, title). (various references)

Thai

เขียนพา�"หัวข่าว, ข่าวพา�"หัว. (various references)

Turkish

manşette vermek, manşet (caption, cuff, frill, heading, screamer, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), başlık koymak, başlık (bonnet, cap, caption, casque, chapiter, head-dress, headgear, heading, headpiece, helmet, hood, lemma, prelims, title), afişteki isim, afişte ismi olmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

колонтитул (catchword, keyword), газетний заголовок (newspaper-heading). (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� ng đầu, đầu đề, đề mục (text). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "headline": headlined, headliner, headliners, headlines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Headline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heathline, Heraline, heuglini. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aliened, delaine, inhaled.

-2 letters: aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, denial, hailed, halide, handle, healed, heiled, inhale, leaden, leaned, nailed.

-3 letters: ailed, alien, aline, anele, anile, diene, edile, elain, eland, elide, haled, halid, ideal, laden, liane, lined, naled, nidal.

-4 letters: aide, alee, anil, dahl, dale, deal, dean, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, dhal, dial, diel, dine, eide, elan, elhi, hade, haed, haen, hail, hale, hand, head, heal, heed, heel, heil, held, hide, hied, hila, hind, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, lied, lien, line, nail, need, nide.

-5 letters: aid, ail, ain, ale, and, ane, ani, dah, dal, dee, del, den, die, din, edh, eel, eld, end, had, hae, hen, hid, hie, hin, lad, lea, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lin, nae, nah, nee, nil.

+1 letter: headlined, headliner, headlines.

+2 letters: chandelier, endothelia, headliners, heulandite.

+3 letters: chandeliers, chandleries, channelized, diencephala, endothelial, heulandites, lionhearted, philandered, philanderer.

+4 letters: candlefishes, chalcedonies, chalcogenide, chandeliered, cheerleading, dechlorinate, diencephalic, diencephalon, endothelioma, harlequinade, mischanneled, philanderers.

+5 letters: candlelighted, candlelighter, cephaloridine, chalcogenides, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, diencephalons, diphenylamine, disenthralled, endotheliomas, harlequinades, hyperinflated, kindheartedly, mischannelled, nearsightedly, technicalized, thiabendazole, unestablished.

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