headgear

English

Various headgear items.

Etymology

head +‎ gear

Noun

headgear (countable and uncountable, plural headgears)

(uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a helmet.
The harness that fits on a horse's head.
The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
(nautical) the rigging on the foresail
(orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.

Synonyms

(clothing): headdress, headwear; see also Thesaurus:headgear
(harness on a horse's head): bridle

Translations

anything worn on the head

Chinese:
Mandarin: 帽子 (zh) (màozi), 頭巾 (zh), 头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)
Czech: (single item) pokrývka hlavy f
Finnish: päähine (fi)
French: couvre-chef (fr) m
German: Kopfbedeckung (de) f
Hebrew: כִּסּוּי רֹאשׁ‎‎ (he) m (kisúy rosh)
Hungarian: fejfedő (hu)

Icelandic: höfuðbúnaður m
Irish: ceannbheart m, f
Italian: copricapo (it)
Japanese: 帽子 (ja) (ぼうし, bōshi), ヘッドギア (heddogia), 頭巾 (ずきん, zukin)
Maori: paraehe
Portuguese: acessório para a cabeça m
Russian: головно́й убо́р (ru) m (golovnój ubór)
Spanish: prenda para la cabeza f, accesorio para la cabeza m, sombrero (es) m (hat)

harness that fits on a horse's head

Bulgarian: оглавник m (oglavnik)
Finnish: päitset pl
German: Zaumzeug n

Italian: imbragatura f, imbracatura f
Maori: paraehe, paraire
Spanish: brida (es) f

lifting gear at the head of a mine

rigging on the foresail

Anagrams

Heegaard, gear head, gearhead

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