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# headless

adjective (headless)

«headless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Headless means having no head, like a headless statue or ghost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m1)
2. (informal) Running around like a headless chicken means rushing about in panic without thinking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m2)
3. (computing) A headless computer or browser has no screen and is controlled by another computer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories, ghosts and legends (the Headless Horseman); in history, statues and executions (Anne Boleyn's ghost); in everyday talk, the idiom «like a headless chicken»; in computing, headless systems.

### Examples

- The Headless Horseman rode through the woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x1)
- The museum had a headless Roman statue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x2)
- My dad ran around like a headless chicken looking for his keys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x3)
- The snowman was headless after the dog knocked it over. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x4)
- The ghost story was about a headless knight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x5)
- And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/#x6)

### Note

Made from «head» + «-less» (without). Other -less words: careless, endless, homeless.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «headless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/headless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«headless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/headless.html) on Mova free.