Дипломная работа: The problem of polysemy in the English language

2) Collins suffered severe head injuries in the accident.

3) He turned his head to kiss her.

4) I picked up a hammer and hit the head of the nail as hard as I could.

5) Hwang is head of the local Communist Party, and is also a farmer.

6) People going out in conditions like this need their heads examined.

7) She was outside cutting the dead heads off the roses.

8) She saw her father, a head above the rest of the crowd.

9) Keep arms hanging, head down and neck and shoulders relaxed.

Exercise 4

How many meaning of the following words do you know? Name them:

head, bench, to feel, to dress, hand, leg, power.

Exercise 5

Match the idiomatic expressions of the noun head with their meaning.

1) heads up!

2) heads will roll;

3) to be/fall head over heels in love;

4) to be/stand head and shoulders above somebody;

5) to give somebody their head;

6) to hold up your head;

7) to go over somebody's head;

8) to keep your head above water;

9) to put your heads together;

10)to turn/stand something on its head;

a) to discuss a difficult problem together;

b) to be too difficult for someone to understand;

c) to manage to continue to live on your income or keep your business working when this is difficult because of financial problems;

d) to be much better than other people;

e) to show pride or confidence, especially in a difficult situation;

f) to make people think about something in the opposite way to the way it was originally intended;