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Whitehead

Whitehead \White"head`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. The blue-winged snow goose.

  2. The surf scoter.

Whitehead

Whitehead torpedo \White"head` tor*pe"do\, or Whitehead \White"head`\, n. A form of self-propelling torpedo.

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whitehead

n. 1 A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap. 2 A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand 3 The blue-winged snow goose. 4 The surf scoter duck.

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Whitehead

Whitehead can refer to:

  • Whitehead, a blocked sweat/sebaceous duct of the skin known medically as a closed comedo
  • Whitehead (bird), a small species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand
  • Whitehead (surname), a surname
  • USS Whitehead (1861–1865), American Civil War, 136-ton screw steam gunboat
  • Whitehead torpedo, the first effective self-propelled torpedo, invented by Robert Whitehead in 1866

Whitehead may also refer to:

Whitehead (bird)

The whitehead (Mohoua albicilla) or pōpokotea is a small species ( 15 cm in length, 18.5/14.5 g.) of passerine bird endemic to New Zealand. It is currently classified in the family Mohouidae. The male whitehead's upperparts, wings and tail are a pale brown in colour, while the head and underparts are white -in the case of the former an almost pure white in colour. Females and juveniles have similar colouration except that the nape and crown (top of the head) are shaded brown. The black beak and eyes contrast with the white head and the feet are bluish black in colouration.

Formerly quite common and widespread in native forests in the North Island, the whitehead has suffered a marked decline in the past two centuries since European colonisation and today is restricted to a fraction of its former range. Historically, deforestation has destroyed large areas of habitat for this species but today the greatest threat is the predations of invasive mammalian species such as rats and stoats. It has been the subject of an active conservation campaign and has been successfully reintroduced into reserves near Auckland and Wellington respectively. In the past whiteheads held a special place in maori culture. As well as the species appearing in many legends, whiteheads were viewed by Maori to have roles as messengers of the gods and as fortune tellers or seers - and because of these beliefs, live birds were caught and used in several different kinds of ceremonial rites.

Whitehead (surname)

Whitehead is a surname. Recorded in a number of spellings including Whithead, Whitehed, Whithed, and Whitsed, this surname is of English origins. It usually derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "hwit" meaning white, plus "heafod", a head, combined to form a descriptive nickname for someone with white hair.

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adam Whitehead (born 1980), British swimmer
  • Adrian Whitehead (born 1975), Australian rules footballer
  • Alan Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), British philosopher and mathematician
  • Alfred Whitehead (1887–1974), English composer, organist, choirmaster and music educator, active in Canada
  • Mrs. Andrew Whitehead (died 1920), American blizzard victim
  • Annie Whitehead (born 1955), English jazz trombone player
  • Axle Whitehead (born 1980), Australian entertainer
  • Barb Whitehead (born 1961), American golfer
  • Ben Whitehead, English voice actor
  • Bob Whitehead, American game designer and programmer
  • Bob Whitehead (soccer) American soccer player
  • Bruce Whitehead, American politician in Colorado
  • Bud Whitehead (born 1939), American football player
  • Bus Whitehead (1928–2010), American basketball player
  • Burgess Whitehead (1910–1993), American baseball player
  • Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), English poet, novelist and dramatist
  • Charlie Whitehead (footballer) (born 1899), Australian rules footballer
  • Chris Whitehead (born 1986), English rugby union player
  • Christian Whitehead, Australian video game developer
  • Chryssie Whitehead American actress, singer and dancer
  • Clay T. Whitehead (1938–2008), United States government official in charge of telecommunications
  • Clive Whitehead (born 1955), English footballer - Bristol City and West Bromwich Albion
  • Colson Whitehead (born 1969), American author
  • David Whitehead (1896–1992), Australian Army officer
  • Dean Whitehead (born 1982), English footballer
  • Derek Whitehead, English rugby league footballer
  • Donald S. Whitehead, American politician in Idaho
  • Edward Whitehead (1908–1978), spokesman and later president of Schweppes
  • Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), Rhodesian politician
  • Edwin H. Whitehead (1925–2007), American lawyer and politician in Wyoming
  • Elliott Whitehead (born 1989), English rugby league player
  • Ennis Whitehead (1895–1964), Lieutenant General U.S. Air Force
  • Frank Whitehead, Canadian politician
  • Frank Whitehead (mayor), American politician from Florida
  • Frederick Whitehead, (1853–1938), English landscape artist and illustrator
  • Frederick Wilson Whitehead, (1863–1926), English organist, composer and music teacher.
  • Garron Whitehead (born 1996), American Student, 2011 NC FFA Tool ID CDE Champion, 2014 NC FFA Forestry CDE highest scoring individual.
  • Gary Whitehead (born 1965), American poet and painter
  • Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1939), English actor
  • George Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer
  • Graham Whitehead (1922–1981), British racing driver
  • Gregory Whitehead, American writer, radiomaker and audio artist
  • Gustave Whitehead (1874–1927), aviation pioneer, emigrated from Germany to U.S., first powered airplane flight in 1901
  • Hal Whitehead, Canadian biologist
  • Henry Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Hugh Whitehead (died 1551), prior of the Benedictine monastery at Durham, England
  • J. Gordon Whitehead, Contributed to the death of Houdini
  • J. H. C. Whitehead (1904–1960) (known as Henry), British mathematician
  • James Whitehead (disambiguation) (including Jim and Jimmy), multiple people
  • Jason John Whitehead, Canadian stand-up comedian, active in Britain
  • Jay Whitehead (born 1959), American author and publisher
  • Jerome Whitehead (1956–2012), American basketball player
  • John Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Jonathan Whitehead, English composer
  • Joseph Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Lees Whitehead (1864–1913), English cricketer
  • Lucky Whitehead (born 1992), American football player
  • Luke Whitehead (born 1981), American basketball player
  • Luther Whitehead (1869–1931), English cricketer
  • Martha Whitehead, Texas State Treasurer
  • Max Whitehead (1923–2010), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Maxey Whitehead (born 1985), American voice actress
  • Mike Whitehead (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter
  • Milt Whitehead (1862–1901), Canadian baseball player
  • Neville Whitehead (bassist), New Zealand jazz bassist and luthier
  • Nick Whitehead (1933–2002), Welsh sprinter
  • Nikki Whitehead (1975–2010), Mother murdered by her twin daughters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah
  • Nicole Whitehead (born 1980), American model and Playboy Playmate
  • Norman Whitehead (1915–1983, English landscape painter
  • O.Z. Whitehead (1911–1998), American actor and author
  • Paul Whitehead, British painter and graphic artist
  • Paxton Whitehead (born 1937), British actor
  • Peter Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Phil Whitehead (born 1969), English footballer
  • Phillip Whitehead (1937–2005), British politician, television producer and writer
  • Phill Whitehead (born 1984), Media streaming specialist in education and representative of Great Britain for Go-Kan-Ryu Karate
  • R. Whitehead (cricketer), English cricketer between 1785 and 1800
  • Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854–1929), founder of the "Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony", New York
  • Rex Whitehead (born 1948), Australian cricket umpire
  • Richard Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Richmal Oates-Whitehead (1970–2005), New Zealander who died in London
  • Robert Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Ron Whitehead, American poet
  • Rowland Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Stanley Whitehead (1911–1976), New Zealand politician
  • Stanley Whitehead (physicist) (1902–1956), British physicist
  • Steve Whitehead (born 1960), English photorealist painter
  • Stuart Whitehead (born 1976), English footballer
  • Tahir Whitehead (born 1990), American football player
  • Terrell Whitehead (born 1988), American football player
  • Terrence Whitehead (born 1983), American football player
  • Terry Whitehead, Canadian politician
  • Thomas Whitehead (1825–1901), member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia (1873–1875)
  • Þór Whitehead (Thor Whitehead) (born 1943), Icelandic historian
  • Tim Whitehead (ice hockey), American ice hockey coach
  • Tim Whitehead (rugby player) (born 1988), South African rugby union player
  • William Whitehead (disambiguation) (including Willie), multiple people

Usage examples of "whitehead".

Aunt Hermione was invited to join the New England Horticultural Society, and had a mild flirtation with James Whitehead.

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

The line then runs from Nietzsche to Bergson, the French voluntarist, Heidegger and Sartre, and to Whitehead, the great metaphysician of our centuryall of this came from Schelling.

Ben was presenting a major research project from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with all the prestige that automatically conferred.

Caroline Lampert, all of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reportedly concerns a radical new approach to attacking carcinomas through genetically engineered retroviruses.

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

After arriving in St Boniface, the Countess was put to work by Whitehead building a southbound line along the east side of the Red River to Pembina, where a connection would be made with the U.

Vickerys had paid much attention to the doings of the junior Whiteheads at the other end of their garden, but I wondered if Michael had?

I think the Whiteheads were a bit scandalized to see Jennie drinking in the first place.

We saw two torpedo boats, and some Whitehead torpedoes, the boats were built in Great Britain for Chili, and purchased from the Chilians two years ago.

Whitehead: computers and lab animals and expensive equipment and refrigerated cultures and unrefrigerated cultures and notebooks and enough glassware to water Ethiopia.

Unintroduced, Whitehead observed these intercourses from the corner of the room, where he was perched on a baronial velvet armchair.

Tuckle plight Giles had asked Whitehead to take along a liter of gin the next time he went to see them, which Keith had done that Tuesday, adjudging the present too fattening to intercept.

Twenty minutes later and the uncooperative Whitehead had failed to respond, variously, to swallowing a half bushel of grass, having his kidneys ground and punched, getting his testicles mightily squeezed, and being swung circularly in midair, this way and that, by his arms, his legs and his hair.

I crib from your own Alfred North Whitehead informing these ideas, because Whitehead had this idea of what he called 'concrescence' and he said, you know, that the universe had an appertition for novelty, an appetite for novelty that moved toward a nexus of concrescence, and I believe that, yes, we are so close to the transcendental object at the end of time that really it is going to occur probably in late 2012.