Lintel vs. Header

By Jaxson

  • Lintel

    A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. It is often found over portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.

    Modern day lintels are made using prestressed concrete and are also referred to as beams in beam and block slabs or ribs in rib and block slabs. These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks are components that are packed together and propped to form a suspended floor concrete slab.

Wikipedia
  • Lintel (noun)

    A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

  • Header (noun)

    The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

    “If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.”

  • Header (noun)

    titling or summarizing it.

    “Your header is too long; “Local Cannibals” will suffice.”

  • Header (noun)

    Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.

    “That column should have the header “payment status”.”

  • Header (noun)

    A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.

    “Parts of speech belong in a level-three header. Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.”

  • Header (noun)

    The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.

    “The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.”

  • Header (noun)

    clipping of header file

  • Header (noun)

    the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors

    “The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.”

  • Header (noun)

    A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher.

    “This wall has four header courses.”

  • Header (noun)

    A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.

  • Header (noun)

    A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.

    “They fed the bale into the header.”

  • Header (noun)

    The act of hitting the ball with the head.

    “His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.”

  • Header (noun)

    Someone who heads the ball

  • Header (noun)

    A headlong fall or jump.

    “The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header.”

  • Header (noun)

    A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.

  • Header (noun)

    A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.

    “Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers.””

  • Header (noun)

    The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.

  • Header (verb)

    To strike (a ball) with one’s head.

Wiktionary
  • Lintel (noun)

    a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.

  • Header (noun)

    a shot or pass made with the head.

  • Header (noun)

    a headlong fall or dive.

  • Header (noun)

    a brick or stone laid at right angles to the face of a wall.

  • Header (noun)

    a line or block of text appearing at the top of each page of a book or document.

  • Header (noun)

    the part of an email before the message, containing information such as the subject and sender.

    “every email message needs a header indicating the sender’s identity and address”

  • Header (noun)

    a raised tank of water maintaining pressure in a plumbing system.

  • Header (noun)

    a person who ropes a steer by its head (as opposed to its heels), especially in a team-roping rodeo event

    “the steer ran straight and the header made a good catch”

  • Header (noun)

    a mad or foolish person.

Oxford Dictionary

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