ALL meanings of hair
hair
H h - noun hair human head 1
- noun hair on human body 1
- noun hair animal 1
- noun hair filament 1
- noun hair botany 1
- noun hair tiny measure of sthg 1
- noun hair individual hair 1
- noun hair any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus. 1
- noun hair an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals. 1
- noun hair a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc. 1
- noun hair Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis. 1
- noun hair cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca. 1
- noun hair a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair. 1
- idioms hair get in someone's hair, Slang. to annoy or bother someone: Their snobbishness gets in my hair. 1
- idioms hair hair of the dog, Informal. a drink of liquor, supposed to relieve a hangover: Even a hair of the dog didn't help his aching head. Also, hair of the dog that bit one. 1
- idioms hair let one's hair down, Informal. to relax; behave informally: He finally let his hair down and actually cracked a joke. to speak candidly or frankly; remove or reduce restraints: He let his hair down and told them about his anxieties. 1
- idioms hair make one's hair stand on end, to strike or fill with horror; terrify: The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end. 1
- idioms hair split hairs, to make unnecessarily fine or petty distinctions: To argue about whether they arrived at two o'clock or at 2:01 is just splitting hairs. 1
- idioms hair tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, or anger: He's tearing his hair over the way he was treated by them. Also, tear one's hair out. 1
- idioms hair to a hair, perfect to the smallest detail; exactly: The reproduction matched the original to a hair. 1
- idioms hair without turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair. 1
- noun hair Any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals. 1
- noun Technical meaning of hair [back-formation from hairy] The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase "infinite hair", which connotes extreme complexity. Also in "hairiferous" (tending to promote hair growth): "GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes." "Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right." (Or just: "Hair squared!") 1
- variable noun hair Your hair is the fine threads that grow in a mass on your head. 0
- variable noun hair Hair is the short, fine threads that grow on different parts of your body. 0
- variable noun hair Hair is the threads that cover the body of an animal such as a dog, or make up a horse's mane and tail. 0
- countable noun hair Hairs are short, very fine threads that grow on some insects and plants. 0
- noun hair any of the threadlike pigmented structures that grow from follicles beneath the skin of mammals and consist of layers of dead keratinized cells 0
- noun hair a growth of such structures, as on the human head or animal body, which helps prevent heat loss from the body 0
- noun hair any threadlike outgrowth from the epidermis, such as a root hair 0
- noun hair a fabric or material made from the hair of some animals 0
- noun hair (as modifier) 0
- noun hair any of the fine, threadlike outgrowths from the skin of an animal or human being 0
- noun hair a growth of these 0
- noun hair the growth covering the human head 0
- noun hair the growth covering all or part of the skin of most mammals 0
- noun hair material woven from hair 0
- noun hair an extremely small space, margin, degree, etc. 0
- noun hair a threadlike growth on a plant; trichome 0
- adjective hair made of or with hair 0
- adjective hair for the care of the hair 0
- noun hair (Countable Noun) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. 0
- noun hair (Uncountable Noun) 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. 0
- noun hair (Countable Noun) (zoology) 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. 0
- noun hair (Countable Noun) (botany) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. 0
- noun hair (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Haircloth; a hair shirt. 0
- noun hair (Countable Noun) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. 0