A headword can be a noun or a verb or, less frequently, an adjective.
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This third section has approximately 500 headwords, again in alphabetical order, and these form the conceptual categories under which all the other words are grouped.
Uso de head word en inglés
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As these thoughts and feelings swept disjointedly through his busy headword was sent out to him that he might see the district-attorney.
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And he ketched me grinning over his shoulder when I read them headingwords after that old lunkhead of a Prophet passed him the paper.