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How to pronounce “head”

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Pronunciation guide for head

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of head with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Peter Donnelly: How stats fool juries 22 minutesHere's one -- a head, followed by a tail, followed by a tail.
Definition summary: (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

Example 1 of 8

Peter Donnelly: How stats fool juries 22 minutes

Here's one -- a head, followed by a tail, followed by a tail.

[Noun]
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
(social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
A significant or important part.
Headway; progress.
Topic; subject.
(only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
(fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
(slang) The glans penis.
(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
(obsolete) Power; armed force.
[Adjective]
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
[Verb]
(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
(transitive) To strike with the head
(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
(fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
(intransitive) To form a head.
(transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
(by extension) To check or restrain.
To set on the head.