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720. Head Up - Phrasal Verbs - English Vocabulary - Head Up / Head Something Up / heads-Up / HUD

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2023. 2. 2.
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Head Up (Head something Up) : (부서/과제 등을) 이끌다, 책임지다, (행해시 바람에 맞서)항해하다, (앞으로/위쪽으로)향하다
A Heads Up : 알림, 경고, (경고성)조심해! 주의해!, 알려줌, 보고
A HUD (a heads Up display) : 천정형 영상표시기, 상방시현기, 헤드업디스플레이

 

1)
to head it up, to head something up
to start something but in the leading position or in the member of groups 
I want you to head up a team to investigate this problem, he was asked to take the lead to direct or to take charge of a new project
to head up, to begin to do somthing
the minister has been asked to head up a white paper into these allegatiions
to be in charge of someothing
to be in control of something
he is heading up a new team

 

2)
heads up, this is a warning, this is quite informal
this is saying ' watch out, stop looking down, look up and look about, heads up the boss is coming
thank you for the heads up, thank you for the warning, thank you for giving me a heads up about this
it's normally a piece of advice or warning that something is coming
we've had lots of heads ups about global warning note
heads ups, various warnings
to give somebody a heads up 

 

3)
you could also use this to meaning to inform me  
thank you for giving me a heads up about how this situation is going on
thank you for keeping me in the loop if you like
my boss likes me to give him a head up on what is going on every Friday morning

 

4)
HUD, this is an acronym for a heads up display
this is like the screen that a pilot might have on his helmet so that he can look and see what is happening, but he's also got all of the display all of the information, so he doesn't have to look down to see what is happening. he can keep his head up while he is doing it

 

5)
I also read that you can sue this in sailing where you turn your boat and sail towards the wind

that is to sail head up or head a boat up  

 

also, to head up , to go upwards because we are using in this case the verb to head to go in the direction of
the stock market has been dropping for several weeks  but over the past few days it's been heading up, it's been heading upwards, it's been going upwards  
head up the street and turn left at the traffic light

 

 

 

Formality : 5

 

 

 

 

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