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How to pronounce “hair”
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Pronunciation guide for hair
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hair with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Right Is Wrong
thanks hi first let me say uh your hair
- Definition summary
- (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
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How to pronounce hair
Right Is Wrong
thanks hi first let me say uh your hair
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hair”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
- (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
- (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
- (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
- (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
- (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To remove the hair from.
- (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
- (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
- To string the bow for a violin.
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