Crossword clues for headlong
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headlong \Head"long\, a.
Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.
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Steep; precipitous. [Poetic]
Like a tower upon a headlong rock.
--Byron.
Headlong \Head"long`\ (-l[o^]ng`; 115), adv. [OE. hedling, hevedlynge; prob. confused with E. long, a. & adv.]
With the head foremost; headforemost; head first; as, to fall headlong.
--Acts i. 18.Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
Hastily; without delay or respite.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 precipitous. 2 Plunging downwards head foremost. 3 Rushing forward without restraint. 4 (context figuratively English) reckless, impetuous. adv. 1 With the head first or down. 2 With an unrestrained forward motion. 3 Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation. v
(context transitive English) To precipitate.
WordNet
adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: hasty]
with the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool" [syn: headfirst]
adv. with the head foremost; "the runner slid headlong into third base" [syn: headfirst]
at breakneck speed; "burst headlong through the gate" [syn: precipitately]
in a hasty and foolhardy manner; "he fell headlong in love with his cousin" [syn: rashly]
Wikipedia
Headlong is a 1980 alternate history novel by Emlyn Williams.
Headlong may refer to:
- Headlong (theatre company), a British theatre company
- Headlong (Williams novel), a 1980 novel by Emlyn Williams
- Headlong (Frayn novel), a 1999 novel by Michael Frayn
- Headlong (Ings novel), a 1999 novel by Simon Ings
- "Headlong" (song), a song by Queen from Innuendo
- "Headlong", a song by IQ from The Wake
Headlong is a theatre company noted for reworking plays of the past and commissioning and developing new work.
The company was originally set up in 1974 as The Oxford Stage Company. Previous artistic directors include John Retallack (1989-1999) and Dominic Dromgoole (1999-2005).
When Rupert Goold (2005-2013) took over as artistic director in 2005, the company undertook a major rebrand and was renamed Headlong.
Jeremy Herrin took over the artistic directorship of the company in 2013 and is the current artistic director.
Headlong is a 1999 science fiction novel by English author Simon Ings. It is Ings' fourth novel and depicts the struggle of a man trying to find his humanity after his previously enhanced senses have been removed. A review of the novel in New Scientist praised it as "mature and thoughtful".
"Headlong" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released as the third single from Queen's 1991 album Innuendo.
The song was written by Queen guitarist Brian May, who intended to record it for his then-upcoming solo album Back to the Light (1992), but when he heard Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury sing the track, he allowed it to become a Queen song.
The song was the first single to be released in the United States under their contract with Hollywood Records on 14 January 1991, though it was not released in the United Kingdom for another four months (the first single in the United Kingdom was "Innuendo", which Hollywood eventually released in the US as a promotional single for radio stations). The song charted on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States at #3. The line "And you're rushin' headlong" from the chorus is somewhat lifted from the second verse of " Breakthru", a single from Queen's previous album The Miracle, which contains the lyrics "I wanna rush headlong into this ecstasy".
The cover of one of the CD singles is inspired by Grandville illustrations, as are all of the other singles from the album.
Headlong (ISBN 0-8050-6285-8) is a novel by Michael Frayn, published in 1999.
The plot centres on the discovery of a long-lost painting from Pieter Bruegel's series The Months. The story is essentially a farce, but contains a large amount of scholarship about the painter. Frayn distinguishes between the iconology and iconography of the paintings and suggests that rather than simply being a series of pastoral images they symbolise a Dutch populace undergoing great suffering as a result of Spanish rule.
The novel was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.
Usage examples of "headlong".
He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.
I saw the gigantic forms of my two great auks, followed by their chicks, blundering past in a shower of spray, driving headlong out into the ocean.
And the Biter, helm hard down, was rounding up to stop her headlong dash.
But the vicious sword took that fear and transformed it, bombarding poor Delly with images of her child being massacred by those same orcs, turning her terror into red rage so completely that she was soon running headlong for the camp.
Out of this catalepsy, his spirit sometimes fell headlong into black waters.
The moment she left me, still wavering between happiness and fear, I understood that I was standing on the very brink of the abyss, and that nothing but a most extraordinary determination could prevent me from falling headlong into it.
In another instant he had fired and the huge form of Arbor Croche toppled headlong into the room.
And then, mirabile dictu, between the piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed, swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and gained the safety of the harbour.
Knowing that The Shadow would be after him, Dingbat made a headlong flight down the stairs, shouting incoherently as he went.
Without any warning, the dwarfish hooded figure rushed out of the shadows straight towards him, in a hopping, tumbling, headlong gait, and collided with his legs.
The Equinox crew and their officers had been shoved headlong into the bad times.
George and Astoria, crouched and expecting the full gravity of Earth, stayed on their feet, but Laurie tumbled headlong.
There could be no doubt that Fanny, dazzled by the attentions of a London beau, had plunged headlong into her first love-affair, and was ripe for any outrageous folly.
There was one point at which Grumps stopped short, however, and ceased to follow his friend, and that was when he rushed headlong into the lake and disported himself for an hour at a time in its cool waters.
Malipiero, who in his own way had great wisdom, and who saw that in Venice I was plunging headlong into pleasures and dissipation, and was only wasting a precious time, was delighted to see me on the eve of going somewhere else to fulfil my destiny, and much pleased with my ready acceptance of those new circumstances in my life.