Heed

Definition: Heed

Heed

Noun

1. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences".

Verb

1. Pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men".

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

Date "heed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Heed \Heed\ (h[=e]d), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Heeded; Heeding.]. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Heed

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

Noun: attention; mindfulness, presence of mind; Adjective: intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard; Verb: circumspection, diligence; (care); study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal.

Care

Noun: care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness; Adjective: scruple; (conscientiousness).

Caution

Verb: be cautious; Adjective: take care, take heed, take good care; have a care mind, what one is about; be on one's guard; (keep watch); "make assurance doubly sure".

Noun: caution; cautiousness; Adjective: discretion, prudence, cautel, heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation.

Warning

Beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and ward; (care).

Crosswords: Heed

Portuguese (HEED, high energy electron diffraction).

Heed! Pants (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.)

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

I alone am the one you don't know you need take heed feed your ego (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6)

Oh flee for your lives who heed me not (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

But I don't pay no heed (Goodbye Stranger; performing artist: Supertramp)

I tried to heed his advice (On A Night Like This; performing artist: Trick Pony)

Take Heed Mr. Tojo (1943)

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

Books

• Heed the Call : Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse (reference)

• Heed the Thunder (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (reference)

• Heed the Warning (reference)

• Pedro Cabrita Reis: Giving Heed to Silence (reference)

• Take Heed (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Heed = Health Economic Evaluations Database - Cd-rom Ibm (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Let us then take heed for God

No heed was paid to his words

My good lords both, with all the heed I can.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The extent to which farmers would heed to the call to limit new maize cultivation for the 2000 summer season determined sales prospects for new machinery. (references)

Though recent events indicate that reform may be difficult to implement, the magnitude of the proposed changes dictate that all interested parties in Korea's energy sector heed attention. (references)

The key to an improvement in the fortunes of the agricultural machinery industry, and indeed of farmers about to plant their summer crops, is for them to heed the call by Grain South Africa to restrict the area that will be planted to maize. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

For many years, foreign investors took little heed of these incentives, primarily because of the absence of market-oriented policies in the economy. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

The police claimed that Mbito had approached three plain-clothes officers with a "simi" (a machete) and that the officers shot Mbito only after he did not heed their order to stop. (references)

Turkey

The 1996 amendment to the Anti-Terror Law that gives wide powers to the police to open fire if suspects do not heed a call for surrender was challenged successfully in the Constitutional Court but has not been replaced. (references)

Political Economy

Qatar

Meanwhile, the Government continues to pay heed to Qatar's cultural and traditional values and to maintain a balanced position between more conservative constituencies and those supporting an increasingly Westernized approach to development. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "heed": give heed to ♦ pay heed ♦ pay heed to ♦ take heed ♦ take heed at one's peril ♦ take heed of ♦ take heed of smth. ♦ take heed to ♦ take no heed ♦ To take heed ♦ To take heed to. Additional references.

Albanian

vëmendje (assiduity, attention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, concentration, consideration, note, notice, regard, thought), vë veshin (harken, hear, hearken, listen), mbaj parasysh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملاحظة (attention, notice, noticing, noting, observance, observation, perception, remarking), ‏عناية (attendance, attention, care, concern, custody, interest, keeping, notice), ‏إهتمام (attention, concern, interest, regard, solicitude, studiousness), ‏إهتم (attend, do, go in for, interest, look after, reck), ‏إنتبه الى (pay attention), ‏إنتباه (alertness, attention, attentiveness, awareness, mark, notice, regard, remark, warning), ‏رعى (cherish, cultivate, foster, grass, groom, inculcate, nurse, nurture, pasture, patronize, see to, shepherd, sponsor, take care of, tend). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грижа (attention, care, concern, custody, keeping, look out, oversight, regard, solicitude, study, tendance, trouble, worriment, worrit, worry), вслушвам се в (listen to), внимание (addresses, attention, caution, count, heads up, look out, note, notice, precaution, regard, remark, respect, solicitude, study), вземам под внимание (have respect to, take into account, take into consideration, think of), обръщам внимание на (mind, take notice of, urge), предпазливост (care, caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, guardedness, precaution, prudence, wariness). (various references)

Czech

zřetel (consideration, reference, regard, respect), ohled (regard, respect), dbát (respect), řídit se (obey). (various references)

Dutch

snelle-elektronendiffractie (high energy electron diffraction). (various references)

Farsi 

پروا (Prudence, Solicitude), ملاحظه کردن (Consider, Note, Observe, Perceive, Regard, Remark), ملاحظه (Consideration, Prudence, Regard, Respect, Tact), محل گذاشتن به , مراعات (Consideration, Ovservation, Regard), توجه (Assiduity, Attendance, Attention, Consideration, Keep, Notation, Notice, Regard, Remark, Tendency, Tent), اعتنا, رعایت (Observance, Ovservation, Regard). (various references)

Finnish

ottaa varteen (consider, pay attention to, take into consideration), ottaa vaari jostakin (pay attention, pay heed), korkeaenerginen elektronitaipuma (high energy electron diffraction), elektronidiffraktio (high energy electron diffraction). (various references)

French

tenir compte de, soin, prendre garde à, faire attention à, diffraction d'électrons rapides, attention. (various references)

German

beachtung (attention, compliance, consideration, following, heeding, notice, observance), beachten (advert, comply with, follow, mind, note, notice, observance, observe, pay attention, pay attention to, respect, take into account, take into consideration, to follow, to mind, to note, to notice, to pay attention, to respect, watch out for). (various references)

Greek 

Yψηλής ενέργειας ηλεκτρονική διάθλαση (high energy electron diffraction), προσέχω (advert, attend, be mindful, beware, care, keep an eye on, listen, look after, look at, look out, mind, notice, pay attention (to), reck, see to, take note, take notice of, watch out), προσοχή (advertence, attention, beware of, care, caution, circumspection, intentness, note, notice, oyez, regard, thoughtfulness, wakefulness, watchfulness). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשים לב (attend, mind, pay attention, reck, remark, take care, take notice), לפנות (appeal, apply, bear, close to, free oneself, pay attention, toward, towards, turn, wheel), להאזין (hear, hearken, listen, monitor), לצית (hearken, obey, take orders, toe the line), תשומת לב (attention, notice, regard). (various references)

Hungarian

vigyázat (beware of the dog!, guard, mind the step!, road up, vigilance, ware, watch), figyelem (attention, consideration, courtesy, in limelight, notice, regard), óvatosság (caution, chariness, circumspection, conservatism, discretion, precaution, providence, prudence, reserve, wariness). (various references)

Indonesian

perhatian (attention, concern, lime light), mengacuhkan (care about, concern), gubris (pay attention to). (various references)

Italian

HEED (high energy electron diffraction), ubbidire a, fare attenzione a (mind, notice), diffrazione di elettroni ad alta energia (high energy electron diffraction), cura (care, charge, concern, cure, custody, handling, notice, treatment), attenzione (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, care, carefulness, delicacy, esteem, heedfulness, kindness, look out, mind out there, notice, regard). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

留意 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りゅうい. (various references)

Korean 

주의 (Attention, Caution, Heeding, Noticing, Noting, Propaganda). (various references)

Manx

tort (tort), tastey (attention, awareness, cognition, consideration, keep, notice, observance, observation, observe, storage, vigilance), tastal (attend, fit on, notice, observe), cur twoaie da (beware), cur tastey da (attend, notice, spot), cur geill da (attend). (various references)

Norwegian

ense. (various references)

Pig Latin

eedhay.(various references)

Portuguese

HEED (high energy electron diffraction), ter cuidado com, reparo (fix, mending, notice, observation, remark, repair, shield), prestar aten��o a (hear), difracção de electrões de alta energia (high energy electron diffraction), cuidado (accuracy, attention, care, caution, keeping, labored, laboured, neatness, nursing, outlook, painstaking, punctuality, river-horse, solicitude, tendance, thought, vigilance, watch, watchout, worry), cautela (care, caution, chariness, precaution, prudence, river-horse, vigilance, wariness), aten��o, acautelar-se com. (various references)

Romanian

urmãri atent, observa (catch sight of, descry, distinguish, espy, examine, keep, mind, note, notice, observe, perceive, remark, see, sight, study, survey, watch), luare aminte (attention, watch), lua în seamã, fi atent la (attend to, give ear to, mind, note, notice), bãgare de seamã (care, deliberation, lookout, observance, wariness, watch), atenţie (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, be careful, care, careful, carefulness, caution, closeness, complaisance, consideration, deliberation, have a care, here goes, homage, interest, look out, lookout, mindfulness, note, notice, observance, regard, remark, stand by, thought, vigilance, watch). (various references)

Russian 

внимание (attention, attn, care, great care, note, notice, regard, watch), осторожность (care, caution, circumspection, discreetness, discretion, nicety, prudence, wariness, watchfulness), обращать внимание (mind, notice, pay attention, point out, regard, take note, take note of, take notice), прислушиваться внимание. (various references)

Scottish

umhail (attention, consideration; doubt, suspicion), monaid, aire (attention, intention, notice, watching). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

paziti (be careful, cherish, look after, look out, mind, pay attention, ware, watch), pažnja (attention, care, tendance), obazirati se na. (various references)

Spanish

HEED (high energy electron diffraction), hacer caso de (mind, notice, pay attention), tener en cuenta (allow for, count, keep a tally of, make allowances for, square up, take into account, think), prestar atención a (attend to), escuchar (answer, hang on, harken, hear, hearken, listen, listen in, listen to, monitor, pay attention to, play back), difracción de electrones de alta energía (high energy electron diffraction), atender (advert, attend, care, listen, meet, nurse, pay attention, pay attention to, respond, serve, tend, watch out for), atención (acuity, advertence, advertency, alertness, attention, attentiveness, beware, care, chariness, fore, kindness, look out, notice, regard, solicitude, thoughtfulness), acatar (abide, comply, observe, pay attention, pay attention to, recognize, respect, revere). (various references)

Swedish

högenergielektrondiffraktion (high energy electron diffraction), bry sig om (care, care for, mind about, take count of), bekymra sig om (care about, trouble oneself about), beaktande (consideration), beakta (advert, observe, pay attention, pay attention to, pay regard to, watch out for). (various references)

Thai

เอาใจใส่ (regard), การเอาใจใส่. (various references)

Turkish

kulak vermek (attend, hark, harken, hear, hearken, lend an ear, lend one's ear, listen carefully, mind, pay attention, take heed of), kulak verme (ear, listening carefully), dikkat etmek (be careful, behold, give heed to, keep an eye on, look out, look sharp, look to, make a point of, mind, note, notice, pay attention to, pay heed to, remark, take care, take care of, take heed, take heed of, ware, watch, watch one's step, watch out), dikkat etme (watch), aldırmak (bother about, mind, pay attention, take heed of), aldırma (don't worry, never mind), önemsemek (attach importance to, care, care about, have a high opinion of, make much of, mind, notice, pay attention to, take heed of), önemseme (caring, count, opinion). (various references)

Turkmen 

дtiяaз (caution). (various references)

Ukrainian

увага (attention, count, diligence, hark, mind your eye, nix, note, notice, off, regard, respect), враховувати (allow, appreciate, consider, count, figure on), обережність (alertness, canniness, care, caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, nicety, precaution, wariness), брати до уваги (allow, appreciate, consider, count, note, take into consideration), піклуватися (attend, care, fend, reck), піклування (attention, care, charge, custody, ministering, nevermind, thought), помічати (behold, detect, note, notice, observe, remark, take notice). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lưu ý (advertence, advertency, carefulness, heedfulness, remark), sự để ý (heedfulness, notice, observation, watchfulness). (various references)

Welsh

hidio, ystyried (attend, consider, regard), ystyriaeth (attention, consideration), malio (care, mind). (various references)

ausculta, auscultabant, auscultans, auscultant, auscultare, auscultate, auscultavi, auscultes, exaudi, exaudiam, exaudias, exaudiat, exaudiebas, exaudient, exaudieris, exaudierit, exaudierunt, exaudies, exaudiet, exaudietur, exaudire, exaudires, exaudiri, exaudis, exaudisset, exaudisti, exaudita, exauditae, exauditi, exauditio, exauditor, exauditus, exaudivi, exaudivit, exaudivitque, observa, observabant, observabat, observabilis, observabis, observabit, observabitis, observabo, observanda, observant, observantem, observantes, observantiam, observare, observarent, observares, observaret, observas, observasti, observat, observate, observatis, observaverint, observaverit, observaverunt, observavi, observavit, observent, observentur, observes, observet, observetis, observo. (various references)

onmunan. (various references)

escouter. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "heed": heeded, heeder, heeders, heedful, heedfully, heedfulness, heedfulnesses, heeding, heedless, heedlessly, heedlessness, heedlessnesses, heeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "heed": garnisheed. (additional references)

Words containing "heed": unheeded, unheeding, wheedle, wheedled, wheedler, wheedlers, wheedles, wheedling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Heed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eed, ehead, Eheu, ghede, haed, haedo, headg, hebdo, hebed, hed, heddy, hede, heden, hedex, hedg, hedo, hedy, hee, heeb, heeem, heek, heeld, heem, heen, heer, hees, heet, heev, Hefe, hehe, Hehet, heid, heide, Heido, heiet, hejd, hemd, Hemedi, hend, heped, hered, heted, hevede, hewd, heyd, heye, h'eye, hged, hied, hief, hiet, hiod, hoeed, hred, hyd, hyed, hyv, jeed, rheid, wheed. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dee, edh.

-2 letters: de, ed, eh, he.

+1 letter: eched, heder, hedge, heeds, hewed, hexed.

+2 letters: adhere, behead, beheld, cheder, chewed, echoed, etched, hadjee, headed, header, healed, heaped, heated, heaved, heddle, heders, hedged, hedger, hedges, heeded, heeder, heeled, heezed, hefted, heiled, heired, helled, helmed, helped, helved, hemmed, hented, herbed, herded, herder, hexade, heydey, leched, meshed, peched, shewed, teched, themed.

+3 letters: adhered, adherer, adheres, beached, behaved, beheads, behoved, belched, benched, berthed, cepheid, cheated, checked, cheders, chedite, cheeked, cheeped, cheered, cheesed, cheffed, chested, chevied, cohered, dasheen, deashed, deashes, dehisce, diether, earthed, egghead, ephedra, euchred, exhaled, exhumed, fetched, fleshed, freshed, hadjees, havened, havered, hayseed, headers, headier, headmen, headset, hearsed, hearted, heckled, heddles, hedgers, hedgier, heeders, heedful, heeding, heisted, helloed, hennaed, herders, herdmen, heredes, herried, hexades, heydeys, hogweed, homered, honeyed, hoveled, hovered, inhered, khedive, leached, leashed, leeched, letched, neighed, ochered, peached, perched, reached, redhead, reheard, rehired, retched, schemed, seethed, sheafed, sheared, sheaved, shedded, shedder, sheened, sheered, sheeted, shelled, shelved, shrewed, sphered, teethed, tetched, thieved, ushered, weighed, welched, welshed, wenched, wheedle, wheeled, wheeped, wheezed, whelmed, whelped, whetted.