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Header

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A header is the extra information in a packet that is needed for the protocol stack to process the packet.

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Senses

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a headlong jump or fall

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(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head

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a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon

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a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters

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brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

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horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

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a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

Classifications

Entity Type

Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
copecopingheadheadinglintel
plural
Headers
possessive
Header's
pluralpossessive
Headers'