Heading

Definition: Heading

Heading

Noun

1. A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text".

2. The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies.

3. (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein".

Date "heading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	The horizontal direction in which a craft is pointed, expressed as angular distance from a reference direction, usually from 0 degrees at the reference direction clockwise through 360 degrees.Heading is often designated as true, magnetic, compass, or grid as the reference direction is true, magnetic, compass, or grid north, respectively. (references)
Computing	The word by which an entry is arranged in a file. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Cutting back, in a more or less systematic fashion, the crown of a tree, with the object of producing a close head of shoots(a pollard)beyond the reach of browsing animals. Source: European Union. (references)
	A)any piece(s)of timber from which the head of a barrel, cask, keg, etc. is cut; b)also such pieces when cut and assembled to form the head. Source: European Union. (references)
Information	A name, word or phrase placed at the head of an entry to indicate some special aspect of the item referred to. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	An upsetting operation in which the enlargement of the cross-sectional area is confined to the end of the stock. Source: European Union. (references)
	Increasing the sectional area of a length of material to form a head or boss. Source: European Union. (references)
Military	The direction in which the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or ship is pointed, usually expressed in degrees clockwise from north (true, magnetic, compass, or grid). (references)
Mining	A. A passage leading from the gangway, commonly at right angles in a coal mine b. A smaller excavation driven in advance of the full-size section; it may also be driven laterally, as a cross heading or side drift. A heading may be driven at the top or the bottom of the full-size face c. The vein above a drift d. An interior level or airway driven in a mine e. A road in the solid strata but also in the seam; a road in solid coal f. In a tunnel, a digging face and its work area; the end of a drift or gallery that is being advanced by the mining operation g. A gangway, entry, or airway h. The gravel bank above a sluice in a placer i. A continuous passage between two rooms, breasts, or other working places j. A collection of close joints. (references)
Publishing & Graphic Arts	The words, phrases or sentence heading a chapter of a document or another single part of a document as an article, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	Direction of the longitudinal axis of an aircraft defined by the horizontal angle it makes with a specified meridian. It is measured clockwise from North; the meridian may be true, magnetic, compass or grid, and the heading is correspondingly named. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Heading

Synonyms: aim (n), bearing (n), drift (n), gallery (n), head (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: drive-in (mining), pollarding (food & agriculture), sprouting (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Title-page; head, heading; van; (front)
Indication	Title, heading, docket.
Nomenclature	Name; appelation, appelative; designation, heading, rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet.
Precession	Noun: precession, leading, heading; precedence; priority; the lead, le pas; van; (front); precursor.
Precursor	Prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation; overture, exordium, symphony; premises.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You've got four bogies heading toward you (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Dammit, Tony, I thought you said this thing was gonna stay on the same heading! (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin) Can I ask why we're heading toward it (T2 3-D: Battle Across Time; writing credit: Adam J. Bezark; James Cameron) You better hope he is heading in the opposite direction (Knight Rider; writing credit: Cory Applebaum; Bob Benedetto) We're heading out to the backyard to take a look for that 'big Red dog' (Thirteen Days; writing credit: Ernest R. May; Philip D. Zelikow)
Lyrics	And that you're heading out to Hollywood (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) Packing up our bags maybe heading south (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) But you're steady heading to the mall ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child) I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain (Daniel; performing artist: Elton John) Im heading out (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6)
Movie/TV Titles	Heading Unchanged (1958)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Business in the Information Age: Heading for New Processes (reference) Dear America: The Heading West Collection: Box Set (reference) Heading for Home (reference) Heading Home: Growing Up in Baseball (reference) Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Music Index - Subject Heading List (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Hubert Vogelsinger's Videocoach Soccer - Skills & Heading (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Gay Classics, Vol. 5: Heading Out (reference) Heading East (Premiere Cast Recording) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) Heading for Tomorrow (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Newell 14923 Slip In Heading Hooks (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.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Herman Odessey (l) and Walter J. Bilby (r) Triangulation work in Montana A two-man observing party heading to a station. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		C&GS Ship WESTDAHL In Glacier Bay heading up Johns Hopkins Inlet. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Heading up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Heading toward Ballard Locks from Lake Union. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Heading up the glacial valley from Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Tractor heading up a mountain slope. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	The lobster boat STORMY ELIZABETH heading out of port. Credit: Fisheries.		Heading and gutting salmon in anticipation of a community fish fry in support of the United Seiners Association. Credit: Fisheries.
	Heading east over the Miami area shoreline. Credit: Flying With NOAA.		North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Estuaries are important areas for commercial and recreational boating activities . This fleet of sportfishing boats is heading out at the start of a fishing tournament. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	This remark applies also to the ratification by the Federal Chambers, dealt with in paragraph 1 (a), of the Swiss note of May 5, under the heading "Neutralised zone of Haute-Savoie." ARTICLE 436. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The articles are the results which are the most accessible to non- professionals and often listed under the heading "Citations." (references)
Business		The applicable custom duty and tax information is set forth after each heading and product description. (references)
		Overall, Peruvian imports decreased 16 percent in 1999, while the items comprised by the Peruvian tariff heading for SSE fell by an even greater 23.2 percent. (references)
		In addition, sometimes there are slight discrepancies between the two. The applicable import duty information is listed after each heading and product description. (references)
Children	Zimbabwe	Many grandparents are left to care for the young, and in some cases, children or adolescents are heading families. (references)
Civil Liberties	Greece	On November 5, the coast guard intercepted and assisted a disabled, Turkish-flag vessel that carried 714 persons believed to be heading for Italy. (references)
	Belarus	Foreigners generally are prohibited from preaching or heading churches, at least with respect to what the authorities view as nontraditional faiths or sects, which include Protestant groups. (references)
Economic History	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia's insurance market is heading for a boom. (references)
	Australia	Skiing is a popular holiday activity, with an estimated 85-95 percent of long-haul ski traffic from Australia heading for North America. (references)
	New Zealand	A "sign" includes, but is not limited to, a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter, numeral, color or any combination of these. (references)
Trade	Barbados	Under a CARICOM-Venezuela agreement, Barbadian-manufactured products can be exported to Venezuela duty-free if at least 50 percent of their value is local value-added or if the final product is classified under a different tariff heading than any of the material inputs. (references)
	Israel	The Israeli Customs Services prefer that exporters use their own commercial invoice forms containing all required information including name and address of supplier, general nature of the goods, country of origin of the goods, name and address of the customer in Israel, name of the agent in Israel, terms, rate of exchange (if applicable), Israel import license number (if applicable), shipping information, and a full description of all goods in the shipment including shipping marks, quantity or measure, composition of goods (by percentage if mixed), tariff heading number, gross weight of each package, net weight of each package, total weight of shipment, price per unit as sold, and total value of shipment. (references)
Worker Rights	Albania	These victims usually entered Albania through Montenegro, then passed through the northern Albanian city of Shkoder before heading for the southern port city of Vlora. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Democrats will be heading to the courts left and right whenever they lose elections now that Lautenberg has replaced Torricelli at this late date in New Jersey.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	We can help farmers best not by expanding Federal payments but by making fundamental reforms, keeping interest rates heading down, and knocking down foreign trade barriers to American farm exports.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Heading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.60% of the time. "Heading" is used about 2,131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	64.6%	1,377	5,803
Noun (singular)	35.4%	754	9,061
Total	100.00%	2,131	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "heading" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Heading	Last name	100	83,963
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "heading": advanced heading ♦ average heading ♦ cardinal heading ♦ Chapter heading ♦ coal heading ♦ cold heading ♦ compass heading ♦ cross heading ♦ drainage heading ♦ Heading course ♦ heading for an index of a serial publication ♦ heading indicator ♦ Heading joint ♦ heading of a cumulative index for a serial publication ♦ heading recopy ♦ heading side ♦ heading stone ♦ heading wall ♦ inbound heading ♦ index heading ♦ magnetic heading ♦ main heading ♦ message heading ♦ parallel heading ♦ radar heading ♦ say heading ♦ ship's heading ♦ side heading ♦ start of heading ♦ start of heading character ♦ subdivided heading ♦ subject heading ♦ true heading. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "heading": heading-tape, heading-up.
	Ending with "heading": dead-heading, sub-heading.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "heading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		graad (degree, grade, title). (various references)

Albanian		titull (appellation, caption, degree, designation, dignity, handle, name, rubric, title), temë (argument, burden, subject, subject matter, theme, topic), nëntitull (subhead, subheading, subtitle), krye (head, lead), kokë e gjallë (headline). (various references)

Arabic		‏عنوان الصفحة, ‏عنوان (address, item, picture, rubric), ‏رؤوس أقلام (headnotes, short notes, titles), ‏رأسية. (various references)

Bulgarian		главна галерия (header), направление (bound, direction, drift, range, run, set, tendency, track, turn, way), надпис (epigraph, inscription, label, legend, lettering, notice, scripture, superscription, title), заглавие (designation, headline, headword, title), адрес в горния край на писмо, посока (course, direction, line, run, sense, set, strike, track, way), издадени тухли навън от стена, дата в горния край на писмо. (various references)

Chinese		標題 (caption, headline, subject, title), 标题 (headline, title). (various references)

Czech		hlavièka (bulb, head, header), heslo (catchword, combination, entry, headword, motto, parole, password, slogan, watch word, watchword, word), záhlaví (head, rubric, title, top), titul (caption, degree, style, title), nadpis (caption, headline, inscription, superscript, superscription, title), název (designation, name, term, title). (various references)

Danish		titel (degree, title). (various references)

Dutch		titel (degree, title), onderschrift (degree, title), kop (cup, degree, head, pate, title), graad (degree, grade, rank, rate, title). (various references)

Esperanto		titolo (degree, title). (various references)

Faeroese		heiti (degree, title). (various references)

Finnish		otsikko (head, headline, pediment, title). (various references)

French		titre (head, headline). (various references)

German		Titel (caption, captions, cover, degree, section, title, titles, titular), kopf (bowl, brains, ear, head, leader, master mind, mastermind, memory, mind, nose, pate, person, thinker, top, warhead), briefkopf (letterhead), Überschrift (caption, headline, superscription, title), überschrift (caption, headline, superscript, superscription, title). (various references)

Greek		επικεφαλίδα (caption, headline). (various references)

Hebrew		כותרת (capital, caption, rubric, title). (various references)

Hungarian		rovat (column, head). (various references)

Indonesian		kepala (boss, chief, crest, curator, head, pate). (various references)

Italian		titolo (appellation, caption, count, headline, note, sake, share, stock, title, titre, titular), intestazione (notehead, registration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		部類 (category, class, group), 見出し (caption, index, subtitle), 題目 (title of a book), 頭書き (head note), プロ野球 (10^2, hair, hair band, hair care, hair cream, hair curler, hair dresser, hair dryer, hair liquid, hair manicure, hair oil, hair spray, hairbrush, hairdye, hairpiece, hairpin curve, hairstyle, haste, header, heather, hectare, hecto-, hectopascal, hedge, hedgehog, hedging, hegemony, intense smell, professional baseball, state of being furious or angry), ヘッディング開始 (chemical ooze, head, head coach, head piece, head sliding, head up, head voice, headgear, headhunter, head-hunting, headlight, headlock, headphone, headspin, heavy, heavy metal, heavy smoker, hedonism, hetero, heterodox, heterogeneous, heterosis, recruiting professionals from other companies, slime, sludge, start of heading), 出穂. (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヘッディング , ヘディング , ぶるい (category, class, group), かしらがき (head note), みだし (caption, index, subtitle), だいもく (title of a book). (various references)

Korean		표제 (headline). (various references)

Papiamen		título (degree, title). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadinghay.(various references)

Polish		tytuł (degree, title). (various references)

Portuguese		título (caption, charter, deed, degree, designation, draft, floater, lettering, name, title), cabeçalho (billhead, degree, superscription, title). (various references)

Romanian		rubricã (blank, column, rubric), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding). (various references)

Russian		рубрика (rubric), главный штрек, возглавлять заголовок, направление полета, заголовок (banner, banner headline, caption, head, header, headline, leader, rubric, title), передовой забой, донник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaglavlje (letterhead), pravac (course, direction, movement, route, way), naslov (caption, headline, rubric, title). (various references)

Spanish		título (address, appellation, brevet, caption, certificate, charter, degree, handgrip, handle, head, header, name, prefix, qualification, right, style, superscription, title, titre), membrete (business letterhead, letterhead). (various references)

Swedish		rubrik (caption, column, header, headline, title), överskrift (rubric). (various references)

Thai		ส่วนหัว(กระดาษ, บท ), หัวเรื่อง. (various references)

Turkish		yeraltı geçidi (underground, underpass), rota (course, holding pattern, Lane, rota, route, sea lane, sea route, track), manşet (caption, cuff, frill, headline, screamer, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), konu (affair, argument, business, head, issue, matter, point, Res, shebang, subject, subject matter, text, theme, thing, topic), kafa vuruşu (header), başlık (bonnet, cap, caption, casque, chapiter, head-dress, headgear, headline, headpiece, helmet, hood, lemma, prelims, title), baş kısım, baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), ana fikir (burden, central topic, governing idea, main theme, point, root idea, subject matter). (various references)

Ukrainian		курс (course, path, rate, route, vector), заголовок (caption, title). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự hướng về, đề mục nhỏ. (various references)

Welsh		pennawd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nomen, nomenque, nomina, nomine, nomini, nominibus, nominis, nominum, titulus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Judges Chapter 20, Verse 42
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eklinan enwpion androV israhl eiV thn odon thV erhmou kai o polemoV katefqasen auton kai oi apo twn polewn diefqeiran auton en mesw autwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et ad viam deserti ire coeperunt illuc quoque eos adversariis persequentibus sed et hii qui urbem succenderant occurrerunt eis
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And to the weye of deseert thei bigunne to goon; forsothe thider hem aduersaryes pursuynge, but and thes, that setten the toun on fier, ayen comynge to hem.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Judges Chapter 20, Verse 42
Cebuano	Busa mingtalikod sila sa atubangan sa mga tawo sa Israel ngadto sa alagianan sa kamingawan; apan giapiki sila sa gubat sa hilabihan; ug sila nga nanggula gikan sa mga ciudad nagpatay kanila sa kinataliwad-an niana.
Croatian	I pobjegoše ispred Izraelaca prema pustinji, ali im ratnici bijahu za petama, a oni što su dolazili iz grada ubijahu ih s leða.
Danish	og de gjorde omkring for Israels Mænd og flygtede ad Ørkenen til.Men Kampen fortsattes i Hælene på dem. Og de fra Byerne huggede ned for Fode iblandt dem;
Dutch	Zo wendden zij zich voor het aangezicht der mannen van Israel naar den weg der woestijn; maar de strijd kleefde hen aan, en die uit de steden vernielden ze in het midden van hen.
Finnish	Ja he kääntyivät pakoon Israelin miesten edestä erämaan tielle, mutta sota seurasi heitä kintereillä; ja sikäläisten kaupunkien asukkaat kaatoivat heitä heidän keskeltänsä.
French	Ils tournèrent le dos devant les hommes d`Israël, et s`enfuirent par le chemin du désert. Mais les assaillants s`attachèrent à leurs pas, et ils détruisirent pendant le trajet ceux qui étaient sortis des villes.
German	Und wandten sich von den Männern Israels auf den Weg zur Wüste; aber der Streit folgte ihnen nach, und die von den Städten hineingekommen waren, die verderbten sie drinnen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jadi, mereka lari dari orang-orang Israel menuju ke daerah padang gurun, tetapi mereka tidak dapat lolos. Mereka terkepung di antara pasukan inti Israel dan pasukan yang pada saat itu sedang datang dari jurusan kota. Orang Benyamin menderita kekalahan yang amat hebat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka sebab itu menyimpanglah mereka itu dari hadapan bani Israel kepada jalan ke padang belantara, tetapi perang itu lekat juga padanya, maka orang yang datang dari negeri itupun memarang akan mereka itu sambil mengepung akan dia berkeliling.
Italian	Voltarono le spalle davanti agli Israeliti e presero la via del deserto; ma i combattenti li incalzavano e quelli che venivano dalla città piombavano in mezzo a loro massacrandoli.
Maori	Na reira ka whati ratou i te aroaro o nga tangata o Iharaira ki te huarahi ki te koraha; otiia i pipiri tonu te whai a te hoariri i a ratou; na, ko te hunga i puta mai i roto i nga pa, kei te whakangaro i a ratou, he mea karapoti na ratou.
Portuguese	Portanto, virando as costas diante dos homens de Israel, fugiram para o caminho do deserto; porém a peleja os apertou; e os que saíam das cidades os destruíam no meio deles.
Rumanian	Au dat dosul knaintea bqrbayilor lui Israel, wi au fugit pe calea care duce kn pustie., Dar nqvqlitorii s`au luat dupq ei, iar pe cei ce iewiserq din cetate i-au culcat la pqmknt, cqci ki prinseserq la mijloc.
Swedish	Och de vände om för Israels män, bort åt öknen till, men fienderna hunno upp dem; och de som bodde i städerna där nedgjorde dem som hade kommit mitt emellan.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "heading": headings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "heading": beheading, coheading, deadheading, mastheading, spearheading, subheading. (additional references)
	Words containing "heading": beheadings, subheadings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Heading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hadding, hadengue, headend, headin, heafing, heaning, heasding, heeden, helding, Hendring, Hesdin, Hesdins, hoading, Meading, Phedang, rhinadin, sheading. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "heading" (pronounced he"ding)
5	h e" d i ng	beheading.
4	-e" d i ng	bedding, breading, dreading, reading, Redding, retreading, shedding, shredding, sledding, spreading, threading, treading, wedding.
3	-d i ng	applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, tiding, trading, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n"
	-1 letter: gained, hading, haeing, hanged, hinged, nighed.
	-2 letters: deign, dinge, hinge, neigh.
	-3 letters: aged, agin, aide, dang, dean, deni, dine, ding, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, gied, gien, hade, haed, haen, hand, hang, head, hide, hied, hind, idea, nide, nigh.
	-4 letters: age, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, dag, dah, den, die, dig, din, edh.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n"
	+1 letter: adhering, deashing, headings.
	+2 letters: anguished, beheading, chagrined, coheading, detaching, garnished, hagridden, hardening, heralding, threading.
	+3 letters: beheadings, chagrinned, debauching, garnisheed, handseling, hardenings, headlining, headspring, highhanded, highlander, ingathered, languished, longhaired, nightshade, rehandling, shanghaied, springhead, subheading.
	+4 letters: beshadowing, candlelight, chandelling, deadheading, dehydrating, despatching, handselling, handwringer, harbingered, headhunting, headsprings, highlanders, mastheading, nearsighted, nightshades, overhanding, rehardening, rehydrating, rethreading, springheads, subheadings, ungarnished, unthreading.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
heading	48	explained heading key keyword meta meta tag tag title words	4
cold heading	35	heading medical subject	4
congress heading library subject	29	cold heading tool	4
free heading	10	heading home	4
heading highway lyrics	10	apa heading	4
heading letter	9	cold heading tooling	4
attitude and heading reference system	9	cold heading machinery	4
3d heading	9	heading mortgage rate where	4
heading subject	8	heading machine	4
beam heading	8	dead flower heading	4
heading mla	8	curtain heading tape	4
cold heading die	8	apa heading style	4
dead heading rose	7	heading lc subject	4
animated heading	6	cold heading quote	4
dead heading	5	format heading mla	4
compass heading	5	cold heading rfqs	3
heading sensor	5	cold heading company	3
heading resume	5	heading maker	3
html heading	5	cold heading machine	3
sears list of subject heading	5	heading horse	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Seabird heading home" by Tyniuz C. Commentary: "Seabird finally heading home over the sea."	"Wild flower 2" by Hank Furnbach Commentary: "Another shot of a Wild flower along a path heading to the beach on the Maine coast."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Definition: Heading

Heading

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Specialty Definition: Aircraft heading

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Beginning

Indication

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Precession

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Books

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Rush Limbaugh

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagan

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