"head up" meaning in English

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      "form": "heads up",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "heading up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "headed up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "headed up",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries."
        },
        {
          "text": "April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/\nThe gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "take charge",
          "take charge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
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          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lead or take the lead",
          "word": "být v čele"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "lead or take the lead",
          "word": "encabezar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "lead or take the lead",
          "word": "encabeçar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vozglávitʹ",
          "sense": "lead or take the lead",
          "word": "возгла́вить"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead or take the lead",
          "tags": [
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "encabezar"
        }
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it."
      ],
      "id": "en-head_up-en-verb-9LZYE23v",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "heads up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
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            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "glosses": [
        "To turn towards the wind"
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          "turn",
          "turn"
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        "(nautical) To turn towards the wind"
      ],
      "topics": [
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  "word": "head up"
}

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    {
      "form": "heads up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heading up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "headed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "head up (third-person singular simple present heads up, present participle heading up, simple past and past participle headed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "heads up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries."
        },
        {
          "text": "April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/\nThe gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "take charge",
          "take charge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn towards the wind"
      ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
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        [
          "turn",
          "turn"
        ],
        [
          "wind",
          "wind"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To turn towards the wind"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lead or take the lead",
      "word": "být v čele"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "lead or take the lead",
      "word": "encabezar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lead or take the lead",
      "word": "encabeçar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozglávitʹ",
      "sense": "lead or take the lead",
      "word": "возгла́вить"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead or take the lead",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "encabezar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "head up"
}