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# heading

«heading» in Mova's school dictionary: **the title at the top of a page, section or piece of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a heading, headings); verb form (head, heads, headed, heading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A heading is the title at the top of a page, section or piece of writing that tells you what it is about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#m1)

2) Heading is the -ing form of head: going towards somewhere, as in heading home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#m2)

3) (sport) Heading is hitting the ball with your head in football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#m3)

4) A heading is a direction of travel, especially for ships and planes, given in degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English and non-fiction writing lessons, headings and subheadings organise information and help the reader find things. In everyday life, Where are you heading? means where are you going. In football, young children's heading practice is limited for safety in the UK. In maths and navigation, a heading such as 090 degrees means east.

### examples

- Write a heading at the top of your page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x1)
- The leaflet uses headings and bullet points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x2)
- We're heading to the beach after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x3)
- The storm is heading towards the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x4)
- He scored with a great heading of the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x5)
- The ship changed its heading to the north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x6)
- Under each heading, list three facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x7)
- This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: headings. Head for or head to a place: we are heading for town. Heading in football: limited for under-12s in some countries because of concussion worries.

### In the corpora

- [Tables, captions, headings and bullet points are part of a text and can hold answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/21/)
- [Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/21/)
- [In non-fiction, headings, subheadings and signposts such as "Firstly, secondly, finally" organise the text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/14/)
- [A non-chronological report organises facts by topic, not by time, usually in the present tense with headings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heading» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heading/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.