Phonetic Breakdown of "heading"
Learn how to break down "heading" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
head-ing
2 syllables
Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:
[ˈhɛɾ.ɪŋ]
Phonetic representation based on standard dictionaries
IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
HH EH1 D IH0 NG
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Definition of "heading"
Pronunciation: [ˈhɛɾ.ɪŋ]
Verb
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To be in command of. (See also head up.)Example: "Who heads the board of trustees?"
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To come at the beginning of; to commence.Example: "A group of clowns headed the procession."
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To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
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To move in a specified direction.Example: "How does the ship head?"
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To remove the head from a fish.Example: "The salmon are first headed and then scaled."
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To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
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To form a head.Example: "This kind of cabbage heads early."
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To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.Example: "to head a nail"
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To cut off the top of; to lop off.Example: "to head trees"
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To behead; to decapitate.
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To go in front of.Example: "to head a drove of cattle"
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To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.Example: "The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult."
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(by extension) To check or restrain.
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To set on the head.Example: "to head a cask"
Noun
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The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
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The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
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Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
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A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
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The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
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The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
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(flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
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