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Definition of Headline
1. Verb. Publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline.
2. Noun. The heading or caption of a newspaper article.
Group relationships: Newspaper, Paper
Generic synonyms: Head, Header, Heading
Specialized synonyms: Drop Line, Dropline, Stagger Head, Staggered Head, Stephead, Stepped Line, Screamer, Banner, Streamer
3. Verb. Provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline.
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Headliner
Definition of Headline
1. n. The line at the head or top of a page.
Definition of Headline
1. Noun. A heading or title of an article ¹
2. Noun. (context: entertainment) The top-billed attraction ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) A headrope. ¹
4. Verb. (context: entertainment) To have top billing; to be the main attraction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headline
1. to provide with a title [v -LINED, -LINING, -LINES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headline
Literary usage of Headline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Newspaper Workers, Treating Grammar, Punctuation, English by Grant Milnor Hyde (1921)
"The form of the headline copy should correspond with the headline model; that is,
... An outline is a helpful preliminary to the building of a headline of ..."
2. Oecd Economic Surveys by Oecd (2007)
"The initial impact of an oil price shock is to raise the headline inflation ...
Once a gap between headline and core opens up, does headline tend to fall ..."
3. The Theory and Practice of Handwriting: A Practical Manual for the Guidance by John Jackson (1894)
"There is almost a consensus of opinion in favour of the latter, an almost endless
variety of headline Copy-Books testifying to the superiority which in the ..."
4. News, Ads, and Sales: The Use of English for Commercial Purposes by John Baker Opdycke (1914)
"The single headline, — the headline consisting of a single line or single ...
The scare headline,— the headline that extends all the way across a page, ..."
5. Oecd Economic Surveys: Spain by Oecd (2007)
"Energy prices have been the main driver of headline inflation Year-on-year
percentage changes II Oil price change in euros (left scale) 2.0 — HICP ..."
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