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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: hair

1	n	a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
2	n	a very small distance or space

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: hair

n a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

“he combed his hair”

“each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells”

Types:: show 43 types...; hide 43 types...; coat, pelage
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; down, pile
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs); head of hair, mane
growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being; cowlick
a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat; coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle
the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair); curl, lock, ringlet, whorl
a strand or cluster of hair; facial hair
hair on the face (especially on the face of a man); bush, crotch hair, pubic hair
hair growing in the pubic area; brow, eyebrow, supercilium
the arch of hair above each eye; cilium, eyelash, lash
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids; fur
dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel); fleece, wool
outer coat of especially sheep and yaks; encolure
the mane of a horse; lanugo
the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation; beehive
a hairdo resembling a beehive; bouffant
a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance; haircut
the style in which hair has been cut; sausage curl
a fat sausage-shaped curl; forelock
a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead; crimp
a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled; dreadlock
one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians; Afro, Afro hairdo
a rounded thickly curled hairdo; bang, fringe
a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead; bob
a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around; wave
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair; braid, plait, tress, twist
a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair; chignon
a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck; marcel
a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron; pageboy
a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward; pompadour
a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead; ponytail
a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail; roach
a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead; scalp lock
a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head; thatch
hair resembling thatched roofing material; beard, face fungus, whiskers
the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face; moustache, mustache
an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn
facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off); minge
vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals

Type of:: body covering
any covering for the body or a body part

n any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

“there is a hair in my soup”

Synonyms:: pilus

Types:: ingrown hair
a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)

Type of:: filament, filum
a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

n filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

Synonyms:: fuzz, tomentum

Types:: stinging hair
a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid; beard
a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses; awn
slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

Type of:: enation, plant process
a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ

n cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

Synonyms:: haircloth

Type of:: cloth, fabric, material, textile
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

n a filamentous projection or process on an organism

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; bristle
a stiff hair; sensory hair, vibrissa, whisker
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat; seta
a stiff hair or bristle; pilus
hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism; chaeta
a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

Type of:: appendage, outgrowth, process
a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

n a very small distance or space

“they escaped by a hair's-breadth”

Synonyms:: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker

Type of:: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude

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