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heading up

heading up is the present participle and gerund of head up.

Meaning of head up

Verb

head up (third-person singular simple present heads up, present participle heading up, simple past and past participle headed up)

  1. (transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
    • We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
  2. (transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
  3. To turn towards the wind

Questions about heading up

What is heading up the present participle and gerund of?
Heading up is the present participle and gerund of head up.

Words near heading up in the dictionary

  1. heading for the hills
  2. heading off
  3. heading off at the pass
  4. heading out
  5. heading south
  6. heading up
  7. Headingley
  8. headings
  9. Headington
  10. Headington stone
  11. headish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heading up (page history and authors); head up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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