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PRONUNCIATION OF HEADWARD

headward  [ˈhɛdwəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEADWARD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Headward can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES HEADWARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of headward in the English dictionary

The definition of headward in the dictionary is cutting backwards or upstream above the original source, which recedes.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEADWARD


awkward
ˈɔːkwəd
backward
ˈbækwəd
bedward
ˈbɛdwəd
downward
ˈdaʊnwəd
Edward
ˈɛdwəd
fieldward
ˈfiːldwəd
forward
ˈfɔːwəd
godward
ˈɡɒdwəd
hindward
ˈhaɪndwəd
homeward
ˈhəʊmwəd
inward
ˈɪnwəd
landward
ˈlændwəd
onward
ˈɒnwəd
outward
ˈaʊtwəd
sideward
ˈsaɪdwəd
straightforward
ˌstreɪtˈfɔːwəd
upward
ˈʌpwəd
westward
ˈwɛstwəd
windward
ˈwɪndwəd
Woodward
ˈwʊdwəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEADWARD

headspring
headsquare
headstall
headstand
headstay
headstick
headstock
headstone
headstream
headstrong
headstrongly
headstrongness
headwards
headwaters
headway
headwind
headword
headwork
headworker
heady

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEADWARD

Academy Award
adward
afterward
Albert Edward
award
come forward
coward
fashion-forward
fast forward
fast-forward
go-forward
hayward
Howard
Lake Edward
put forward
reward
Seward
steward
toward
ward

Synonyms and antonyms of headward in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «headward» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEADWARD

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Translator English - Chinese

溯源
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

headward
570 millions of speakers

English

headward
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

headward
380 millions of speakers
ar

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headward
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

headward
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

remontante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

headward
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

régressive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ke belakang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schreit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

headward
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

headward
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sirah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

headward
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தலைத்திசை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सरळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

headward
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

headward
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

headward
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

headward
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

headward
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

headward
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Terugwaartse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

headward
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

headward
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of headward

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADWARD»

The term «headward» is normally little used and occupies the 146.532 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADWARD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «headward» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «headward» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about headward

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEADWARD»

Discover the use of headward in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to headward and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dynamic Earth
In the process of stream erosion and valley evolution, streams have a universal tendency to erode headward, or upslope, and to increase the lengths of their valleys until they reach the divide. Headward erosion can be analyzed by referring to ...
Eric H. Christiansen, Queens College/CUNY Burton E Tropp, Glendale Community College Jeffrey C Pommerville, 2014
2
Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth
Headward erosion takes place at the upper end of a stream thereby lengthening it. In some cases, headward erosion breaches a divide and diverts some or all of the drainage of another stream system by stream piracy. Downcutting takes ...
James Monroe, Reed Wicander, Richard Hazlett, 2006
3
AS Level Geography
Vertical, lateral and headward erosion River erosion may result in: • vertical corrasion • lateral corrasion • headward erosion. Vertical corrasion This is a characteristic of fast-flowing rivers that are transporting a large bedload of coarse, hard ...
Ann Bowen, John Pallister, 2000
4
Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
In some cases a waterfall cascades over the lip into the main valley, but in high mountain areas headward erosion of the tributary stream has usually cut a narrow gorge into the lower reaches of the hanging valley floor. Outside previously ...
Andrew Goudie, 2013
5
Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology
Streams on the right drain to the Usk and the sea at Newport; their headward erosion threatens to capture the stream and lake on the left, draining to the Taff and the sea at Cardiff. (Aerofilms Ltd) "Te EFFECTS OF FOLDING AND FAULTING ...
Peter MacLaren Donald Duff, Donald Duff, 1993
6
Fluvial Forms and Processes: A New Perspective
At the other is the 'expansion' mode in which lateral and headward growth occur together to give a more or less complete network which slowly extends headward . In between is the 'extension' mode, which is closest to that proposed by Glock ...
David Knighton, 2014
7
The Origin of Mountains
likely to be steeper, and so more erosive, and headward erosion will cause headward erosion or rivers, and when valleys coalesce there will be inland retreat of the Great Escarpment. In the Lake Albert style of rifting, landscape evolution is ...
Cliff Ollier, C. F. Pain, 2000
8
Landforms
The farther a spring head retreats, the greater the flow convergence that it generates, thereby increasing the rate of headward erosion. Headward sapping proceeds faster than valley widening because the valley head is the site of greatest flow ...
Britannica Educational Publishing, Rafferty, John P, 2011
9
Rivers and Floodplains: Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record
Experimental and field studies of the initiation and evolution of channel systems on freshly exposed, regular surfaces composed of homogeneous material demonstrate that channel systems evolve by headward extension (elongation) of  ...
John S. Bridge, 2009
10
Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution
Note that these calculations assume no major increase in the size of the headwaters, which might be expected because of headward erosion. However, catchments rather compete with the systems that discharge to the east (i.e., Altiplano; ...
Sean D. Willett, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEADWARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term headward is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mills County Soil and Water Conservation District awarded a …
Without intervention, gully erosion slowly eats through the watershed, eroding headward, downward, and outward in all of the tributaries that ... «KMAland, Jun 15»
2
SpaceX readies Dragon for launch to International Space Station
"The hypothesis is that the headward fluid shift experienced in spaceflight is leading to an increase in inner cranial pressure," Stenger said. «CBS News, Jun 15»
3
Publication Exclusive: Monitoring long-term effects on vision in …
But in weightlessness, not only is this assist absent, but up to 2 L of fluid shifts headward from the lower body. The core etiology is probably ... «Healio, Jun 15»
4
Monitoring long-term effects on vision in microgravity a priority for …
But in weightlessness, not only is this assist absent, but up to 2 L of fluid shifts headward from the lower body. The core etiology is probably ... «Healio, Jun 15»
5
Status Report - Source: SpaceRef
Because the headward fluid shift is a hypothesized contributor to these changes, reversing this fluid shift with a lower body negative pressure ... «Space Ref, Jun 15»
6
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 June 2015 - 50 Years of Spacewalks
Because the headward fluid shift is a hypothesized contributor to these changes, reversing this fluid shift with a lower body negative pressure ... «Space Ref, Jun 15»
7
Status Report - Source: NASA
Because the headward fluid shift is a hypothesized contributor to these changes, reversing this fluid shift with a lower body negative pressure ... «Space Ref, May 15»
8
SpaceX Dragon attached to ISS Successfully Bringing that ISSpresso
It is hypothesized that the headward fluid shift that occurs during space flight leads to increased pressure in the brain, which may push on the ... «I4U News, Apr 15»
9
SpaceX CRS-6 Mission to ISS is a Go
It is hypothesized that the headward fluid shift that occurs during space flight leads to increased pressure in the brain, which may push on the ... «I4U News, Apr 15»
10
Ice Age Floods experts set programs, field trips, hikes
... overtook the lake's accommodation space and the continuing assault by incremental headward erosion of the southwest bedrock battlements ... «The Spokesman Review, Feb 15»

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