name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
whitehead
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: W AY1 T HH EH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH W AY1 T HH EH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A place name:
A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A place name:
A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A place name:
A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A place name:
An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A place name:
A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dermatology, medicine, sciences
Examples
- Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: closed comedo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
The surf scoter duck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 11
A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 12
A form of self-propelling torpedo.
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noun
Meaning 13
a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: milium
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blemish, defect, mar
noun
Meaning 14
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Alfred North Whitehead
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mathematician, philosopher
History
Etymology
From white + head.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Māori: pōpokotea — a passerine bird of New Zealand
- Finnish: valkopää — pimple
- German: Mitesser — pimple
- German: Komedo — pimple
- Ukrainian: вуго́р (vuhór) — pimple
Real reading context