headrest
- noun
- /ˈhɛdˌrɛst/
- As she relaxed in the car, her head rested comfortably against the headrest.
- headrest pad
- wheelchair headrest
- headrest system
Oh yeah but wait there's more check out this headrest.
- Oh yeah but wait there's more check out this headrest.
- And like, Pete and Espo and whoever, like, took an Uber back to Astoria and to open the bottle of wine, they took the headrest off of the Uber drivers.
- There is a leper behind my headrest and when I pull it, nothing happens.
- But I think those, the headrests take like months to show up and I don't feel like it.
- And then I used to just drink in my car, just sit in the back seat, behind the front seat and just stay at the headrest, Just drink.
Examples
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Failure of the plywood occurred when the headrest did not absorb the energy through its own deformation.
Academic text (1996) -
The procedure developed to evaluate the headrests gave informative and repeatable results.
Academic text (1996) -
In a true impact situation, our headrest does all the work.
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Now guys have those in their headrests, but back then, it was a big deal.
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Finally, with both hands, he reaches behind his head and yanks the headrest from the seat.
Fiction book (1997) -
The goal was to evaluate the headrests according to current clinical use and practice.
Academic text (1996) -
We were able to run all these materials on the headrest and we took over 40Gs of that impact level out of that type of accident.
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Cornelius shut his eyes, his head slumped back against the headrest of his chair.
Fiction book (1996) -
Cullen had leaned back onto the headrest and would be asleep within seconds.
Fiction book (1998) -
The tests performed calculated the energy associated with a critical deformation of the headrest under quasi-static conditions.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
A padded support on top of a car seat that holds the head and reduces neck injury in a crash
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word headrest is made from the simple parts head and rest, where rest means 'to relax'. So a headrest is the soft support on a seat where you can rest your head for comfort and safety.