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heed

noun
/hiːd/

Etymology

From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).

  1. derived from *kadʰ-✻ — “to heed, protect”
  2. inherited from *hōdijan✻ — “to heed, guard”
  3. inherited from hēdan — “to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”
  4. inherited from heden

Definitions

  1. Careful attention.

    • Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

  2. To guard, protect.

  3. To mind

    To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

    • With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
    • "It comes back to me that I wanted to say something to the driver and that I couldn't make him heed me."
    • The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To pay attention, care.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at heed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA