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headsheet

headsheet noun: a poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.

Noun

headsheet (plural headsheets)

  1. A poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
    • I asked for the names of a couple of the advertising agencies to which the company representatives send the headsheet, to verify that they do what they claimed.1998, Susan M. Halter, Modeling How One Parent Started Her Children, →ISBN, page 6
    • Not unlike the agency book, the headsheet is sent around to various clients and photographers as a quick-glance reference.2000, Erin Pinckney, The Truth on Modeling
  2. The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
    • He was infuriated, and wrote forthwith a challenge to Daniel scrawled on a newspaper headsheet.1934, Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, page 614
    • And even when the headsheet gives an afterthought to these things, the results can be dismal.1974, Laura Longley Babb, Of the Press, by the Press, for the Press (and Others, Too):, →ISBN, page 66
  3. Synonym of coversheet.
    • A headsheet may be provided, to which these worksheets are attached, and on which descriptions, element times, and the job standard are shown.1945, Wayne Leslie McNaughton, Industrial Economy and Labor Control, page 191
    • COPY the agency identification number from the blue sheet into the space provided on the headsheet of this booklet.1979, Larry A. Giddings, Diana Sooy, National Symposium on Job-Task Analysis in Criminal Justice, page 424
    Synonyms:
    coversheet
  4. Synonym of foresheet.
    • Hilloa, the periagua !” it cried. “ Haul over your headsheet, and jam the tiller down into the lap of that comfortable-looking old gentleman.1873, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch Or the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale, page 37
    • Why don't you haul your headsheet to windward and Starboard your tiller.1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old - Issues 1051-1100, page 33
    Synonyms:
    foresheet
  5. (historical) A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
    • If he is inclined to take a nap after dinner, ' his stomak to digest,' kerchief and comb, pillow and headsheet are to be got ready, and he is not to be allowed to sleep too long.1871, Belgravia - Volume 14, page 128
    • To said Duglas Sheffeild second best bed at Ealinge, chaiers. stooles, creepers, fyer pann, tongues and other furniture in the chamber; also little basin and silver candlestick which I usually have in my chamber etc.; also a silver tonne and porringer, Cambrick sheetes, headsheet, pillowbeers, and...1902 -, The Genealogical Magazine - Volumes 12-14, page 12
  6. Synonym of headcloth.
    • Her headsheet is wrapped half across her face, only her large, kohl-blackened eyes showing.1979, Jane Sherman, The drama of Denishawn dance, page 37
    • The door, however, did not open, and within the minute he whirled to a staccato rap on the pane beyond the door grill, confronting a grizzled face beneath a headsheet crowned with a frayed fillet.1992, George Core, Revelation and Other Fiction from the Sewanee Review
    Synonyms:
    headcloth
  7. A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
    • The number and size of tubes in a given area of headsheet and their relative positions have much to do with the steaming qualities of boilers.1884, Henry Coddington Meyer, Charles Frederick Wingate, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer
    • From headsheet to tailgate— from top roll to longitudinals— every Galion Allsteel dump body is built to give long service life.1955, Roads and Streets - Volume 98, page 127

Examples of headsheet in a sentence

  • Too often, it's nothing more than labelling and a moving headsheet of actors.2004, Systems Design Limited, Moview, →ISBN:
  • The plaintiff says that it was only some 2 or 3 ft. from the headsheet, and that it was in the centre line between aft and forward of the barge.1960, J. A Edwards, Henry Patten Henley, Lloyd's List Law Reports - Volume 2, page 658:
  • In 1494 the two large pillows had been covered by a headsheet which seems to have fallen out of fashion in the sixteenth century as there are very few amongst Henry VIII's goods (12686).2012, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London:
  • The man tears the headsheet of the woman in half and hands it over to her.1996, K. Mann, Tribal Women: On the Threshold of Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 91:

Synonyms of headsheet

Forms of headsheet

pluralheadsheets

Origin of headsheet

From head + sheet.

Questions about headsheet

What does headsheet mean?
Headsheet means a poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
How do you use headsheet in a sentence?
Too often, it's nothing more than labelling and a moving headsheet of actors.
What part of speech is headsheet?
Headsheet is a noun.
What is the plural of headsheet?
The plural of headsheet is headsheets.

Words near headsheet in the dictionary

  1. headshaking
  2. headshakings
  3. headshape
  4. headshapes
  5. headshaping
  6. headsheet
  7. headsheets
  8. headshell
  9. headshells
  10. headshield
  11. headshields

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