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# headless

«headless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no head, like a headless statue or ghost** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (headless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Headless means having no head, like a headless statue or ghost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m1)

2) (informal) Running around like a headless chicken means rushing about in panic without thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m2)

3) (computing) A headless computer or browser has no screen and is controlled by another computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, ghosts and legends (the Headless Horseman); in history, statues and executions (Anne Boleyn's ghost); in everyday talk, the idiom «like a headless chicken»; in computing, headless systems.

### examples

- The Headless Horseman rode through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x1)
- The museum had a headless Roman statue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x2)
- My dad ran around like a headless chicken looking for his keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x3)
- The snowman was headless after the dog knocked it over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x4)
- The ghost story was about a headless knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x5)
- And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x6)

### note

Made from «head» + «-less» (without). Other -less words: careless, endless, homeless.

### In the corpora

- [The headless horseman is an old legend, made famous in a story by Washington Irving in 1820.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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