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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pay attention to; listen to and consider.
- intransitive verb To pay attention.
- noun Close attention; notice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give attention to; regard with care; take notice of; observe; consider.
- To attend; observe; pay attention.
- noun Careful attention; notice; observation; regard: usually with give or take.
- noun The quality or state of attentiveness; the habit of serious consideration.
- noun An obsolete form of
head .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To mind; to consider.
- transitive verb To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
- noun Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with
give ortake . - noun Careful consideration; obedient regard.
- noun rare A look or expression of heading.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Careful attention . - verb transitive To
mind ; toregard with care; to takenotice of; toattend to; toobserve . - verb intransitive, archaic To
pay attention ,care .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pay close attention to; give heed to
- noun paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Take heed, take heed* With nofe infallible The filent pointer winds toward the game.
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Maybe he shoud heed is own advice – stop misrepresenting the facts and top the personal attacks on scientist who disagree with that climate scientist, Al Gore.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006
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Maybe he shoud heed is own advice – stop misrepresenting the facts and top the personal attacks on scientist who disagree with that climate scientist, Al Gore.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006
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Not an office should be filled in the Philippines or Puerto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command; in short, heed should be paid to absolutely nothing save the man's own character and capacity and the needs of the service.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Little heed is taken of the overstocking of the markets, till at last they are flooded with commodities.
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Little heed is taken of the overstocking of the markets, till at last they are flooded with commodities.
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Not an office should be filled in the Philippines or Puerto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command; in short, heed should be paid to absolutely nothing save the man's own character and capacity and the needs of the service.
State of the Union Address Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Not an office should be filled in the Philippines or Puerto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command; in short, heed should be paid to absolutely nothing save the man's own character and capacity and the needs of the service.
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Eureka’s resident Egyptologist warns them of a curse on the tomb and of course, no heed is paid to his warning.
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The whole verse may be read as a question; for, by taking heed -- is better, "for" taking heed, that is, so as to do it.
Related Words
synonyms (167)
Words with the same meaning
- TLC
- abide by
- accept
- accordance
- acquittal
- acquittance
- act up to
- adhere to
- adherence
- advertence
- advertency
- alertness
- animadvert
- anticipation
- application
- assiduity
- assiduousness
- attend
- attend to
- attend to orders
- attention
- attention span
- attentiveness
- audience
- auscultate
- awareness
- be all ears
- be concerned
- be faithful to
- bear in mind
- bend an ear
- bug
- calculation
- canniness
- care
- careful consideration
- carefulness
- carrying out
- caution
- cautiousness
- circumspection
- circumspectness
- cock the ears
- cognizance
- compliance
- comply
- comply with
- concentration
- concern
- conform
- conform to
- conformance
- conformity
- consciousness
- consider
- consideration
- debate
- defer to
- deliberate stages
- deliberateness
- deliberation
- diligence
- discharge
- discretion
- do justice to
- ear
- earnestness
- eavesdrop
- examine by ear
- execution
- fill
- follow
- follow the book
- forethought
- fulfill
- fulfillment
- gingerliness
- give attention
- give audience to
- give ear
- give heed to
- guardedness
- hark
- harken to
- hear
- hear out
- hearing
- hearken
- hedge
- hedging
- heedfulness
- heeding
- hesitation
- hold by
- intentiveness
- intentness
- intercept
- interest
- judiciousness
- keep
- keep faith with
- keeping
- lend an ear
- listen
- listen at
- listen in
- listen to
- live up to
- look
- loving care
- make good
- mark
- meet
- mind
- mindfulness
- note
- notice
- obey
- obey the rules
- observance
- observation
- observe
- pawkiness
- pay attention
- pay attention to
- performance
- practice
- preparedness
- prior consultation
- prudence
- prudentialness
- reck
- regard
- regardfulness
- remark
- respect
- safeness
- safety first
- satisfaction
- satisfy
- see
- sit in on
- slowness to act
- solicitude
- stay in line
- study
- submit
- take
- take an interest
- take note
- take note of
- take notice
- take orders
- tap
- tend
- tender loving care
- tentativeness
- think
- thoroughness
- thought
- thoughtfulness
- toe the line
- uncommunicativeness
- unprecipitateness
- view
- watch
- wiretap
hypernyms (1)
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same context (6)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (5)
Forms
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rhymes (78)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Aristide
- Bede
- Ede
- Gilead
- Mead
- Meade
- Read
- Reed
- Reid
- Sinead
- Snead
- Speed
- Swede
- Tweed
- accede
- agreed
- bead
- bleed
- brede
- breed
- cede
- concede
- creed
- decreed
- dede
- deed
- degreed
- disagreed
- exceed
- fede
- feed
- freed
- fried
- grede
- greed
- guaranteed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- lead
- leed
- lipide
- mead
- misdeed
- mislead
- misread
- need
- overfeed
- peed
- plead
- precede
- preceed
- proceed
- read
- recede
- reed
- reread
- reseed
- riede
- screed
- secede
- seed
- shaheed
- skied
- sneed
- speed
- stampede
- steed
- succeed
- supersede
- swede
- teed
- thede
- tweed
- weed
wmzhou commented on the word heed
Heed his words of wisdom
December 20, 2006
dangleberry commented on the word heed
or in doric, head
July 18, 2007