Difference between Lintel and Header

What is the difference between Lintel and Header?

Lintel as a noun is a horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall. while Header as a noun is the upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

Lintel

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall.

Header

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretchera horizontal structural or finish piece over an openinga machine that cuts the heads off of grain etcthe act of hitting the ball with the heada headlong fall or jumpthe first part of a file or record that describes its contents(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptorsA raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system

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