different between forehead vs foreheat

English

Etymology

From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English f?reh?afod, foranh?afod (“forehead”), corresponding to fore- +? head. Cognate withScots foreheid (“forehead”),Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).

Alternative forms

• for'ead, forrad, forread, forred, forrid (variable or uncertain spellings representing dialect or variant pronunciation)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??h?d/, /?f????d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???h?d/

Noun

forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)

1. (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan

     'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
2. (uncountable) confidence; audacity
3. The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Synonyms

• brow

Translations

English

Etymology

From fore- +? heat.

Verb

foreheat (third-person singular simple present foreheats, present participle foreheating, simple past and past participle foreheated)

1. (transitive) To heat beforehand or in advance.
   • 1908, American Machinist - Volume 31, Part 1 - Page 320:

     The most recent development in this line is the combination of a foreheating apparatus employing oxygen and hydrogen, with a cutting jet of pure oxygen playing on the surface previously made red hot by this oxyhydrogen jet.

   • 1920, The Milk Dealer - Volume 10 - Page 45:

     The photograph shows the special connections on the first heater section, whereby the milk is foreheated for the clarifier.

Synonyms

• preheat

Derived terms

• foreheater