name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
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noun
The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.
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Usage: singular, uncountable, usually
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noun
Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: singular, uncountable, usually
Synonyms: thatch, mop, locks
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noun
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.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
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noun
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.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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Usage: countable, singular, usually
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noun
Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
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Usage: singular, slang, uncountable, usually
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verb
To remove the hair from.
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Usage: singular, transitive, usually
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verb
To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
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Usage: intransitive, singular, usually
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verb
To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
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Usage: singular, transitive, usually
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verb
To string the bow for a violin.
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Usage: singular, usually
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noun
a filamentous projection or process on an organism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: process, outgrowth, appendage
Narrower terms: bristle, whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair, seta, pilus
noun
cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: haircloth
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
noun
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pilus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: filament, filum
Narrower terms: ingrown hair
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: body covering
Narrower terms: coat, pelage, guard hair, mane, forelock, foretop, beard, body hair, down, pile, head of hair, cowlick, hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif, lock, curl, ringlet, whorl, facial hair, pubic hair, bush, crotch hair, eyebrow, brow, supercilium, eyelash, lash, cilium
noun
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant process, enation
Narrower terms: stinging hair, beard
noun
a very small distance or space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker
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Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
History
* As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from ó héir (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”), similar to Hare, O'Hare, Haire. * As an English surname, from the noun hair. * As a Scottish surname, variant of Ayre, Ayer. * As a Dutch and German surname, Americanized from Haar, from haar (“sandy ridge”) (from Proto-Germanic *harugaz) and from the adjective Haar (“hair”).
From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Cimbrian haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German and Low German Haar (“hair”), Luxembourgish Hoer (“hair”), Mòcheno hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (hor, “hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”). The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.
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