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,half `ti·tle /,hAf`taItl-/ noun: (book) A page in a finished book which bears only the title of the book and perhaps some design elements. When a half title is included in a book, it is in addition to the title page. A half-title page, when there is one, often is the first printed page in the book, on the recto of the leaf immediately preceding the title page. Alternately, the half title may be the last page of front matter, immediately preceding the first page of the body of the work. A half title does not occur in manuscript.
`head,word /'hEd,wRd/ noun: The title of an article or entry in an encyclopedia or dictionary or similar reference work, often in a distinctive font, such as boldface and in dictionaries usually displayed inline.; At this site: headwords are alphabetized without regard to the stress markings, without regard to whether letters are capitalized (A = a), and as if accented characters did not have accents (é = e). Since apostrophes can occur within headwords, the grave accent (`) precedes the syllable with the primary stress. This is not in agreement with the ASCII-IPA representation of the pronunciation which uses the apostrophe (in ASCII, identical with the single quote) for primary stress. Secondary stress is indicated in both systems by preceding the syllable with a comma (,). When an unstressed syllable is not the first syllable and is not preceded by a hyphen (-) or a space, it is preceded by a raised (or middle) dot (·). The headword for most usage articles are not syllabified, and many use the solidus (/) between words that are the subject of the article. Personal names are sorted by family name, but the headword is in the natural order (in Western cultures the given name is first) or in the order that occurs most often in English-language literature.