Other Definitions hair (enc)
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Hair| Noun | 1. | hair - dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"pelage, coat - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal guard hair - coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals mane - long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck forelock, foretop - a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears beard - hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals body hair - short hair growing over a person's body pile, down - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) hairline - the natural margin formed by hair on the head part - a line where the hair is parted; "his part was right in the middle" cowlick - a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat moustache, mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache" eyelash, lash, cilium - any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids ceratin, keratin - a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair feathers nails and hooves | | | 2. | hair - a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" | | | 3. | hair - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"stinging hair - a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid coma - a usually terminal tuft of hairs especially on a seed beard - a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | | | 4. | hair - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"mammal - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk filum, filament - a threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells ingrown hair - a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) | | | 5. | hair - cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garmentscloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" | | | 6. | hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organismseta - a stiff hair or bristle pilus - hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" | |
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