different between forehead vs skullcap

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

Alternative forms

• skull cap, skull-cap

Etymology

skull +? cap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?lkæp/

Noun

skullcap (plural skullcaps)

1. A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
2. A yarmulke-like hat worn as an element of ghetto fashion.
3. (anatomy) The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
4. (botany) Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
5. (historical) A torture device for compressing the skull.

Synonyms

• (yarmulke): kippah

Translations

See also

• kippah
• yarmulka, yarmulke
• zucchetto, zuchetto