human head
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- noun
- /ˈhjuːmən hɛd/
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cabeza humana
- Although TBI is devastating to individuals, families, and society, the biomechanical mechanisms behind what happens when a blast wave meets a human head are incompletely understood.
Examples
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Visitors walk through a long, dark, narrow tunnel that contains a row of five life-size black-and-white projections of human heads on each wall.
Academic text (1999) -
The Yoruba woodcarver sculpts the human head proportionately larger than in life and gives it special attention in finishing details.
Academic text (2000) -
Is that a human head?
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His eyes were gold, green, brown: oh, the love inside them seemed too big for a human head to hold.
Fiction book (2001) -
Henry: But why is there a human head in that tank?
Fiction book (2002) -
Does this look like a human head to you, Andy?
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I saw a human head floating in that tank!
Fiction book (2002) -
Do you know the human head weighs eight pounds?
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The human head weighs eight pounds.
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The human head contains important organs like the brain and eyes.
Synonyms
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The upper part of the body that contains the brain, eyes, nose, and mouth and where thoughts happen
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a fully compositional noun phrase: 'human' (pertaining to people) modifies 'head' (the body part), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. The construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English modifier + noun patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Human head is a plain name: human means a person and head is the top part of the body that holds the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. So human head means 'the upper part of the body' that contains these important parts.