hair

Meaning of hair

noun
  1. A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
  2. 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.
    In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
  3. 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.
  4. A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
    Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
  5. 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.
  6. Haircloth; a hair shirt.
  7. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
    Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
  8. Complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy
verb
  1. To remove the hair from.
  2. To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
  3. To cause to have hair; to provide with hair
  4. To string the bow for a violin.

Information about hair

  • The plural form of hair is: hairs.
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Hyphenation of hair

hair

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • hair is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

hair synonyms

Meaning hair's-breadth:

hairsbreadth, whisker

Meaning fuzz:

fuzz, tomentum

Meaning pilus:

pilus

Meaning haircloth:

haircloth

Translation of hair

Anagrams of hair

Ahir, Riha

Words that rhyme with hair

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