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English noun: hair | |||
| 1. | hair (body) 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 | ||
| Samples | He combed his hair. Each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body covering | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | beard, body hair, brow, bush, cilium, coat, coif, coiffure, cowlick, crotch hair, curl, down, eyebrow, eyelash, facial hair, forelock, foretop, guard hair, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, head of hair, lash, lock, mane, mane, pelage, pile, pubic hair, ringlet, supercilium, whorl | ||
| Part holonym | hairline, part, parting | ||
| Part meronym | integumentary system | ||
| Substance holonym | ceratin, keratin | ||
| 2. | hair (quantity) a very small distance or space | ||
| Samples | They escaped by a hair's-breadth. They lost the election by a whisker. | ||
| Synonyms | hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | ||
| 3. | hair (plant) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | ||
| Samples | Peach fuzz. | ||
| Synonyms | fuzz, tomentum | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enation, plant process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | beard, stinging hair | ||
| 4. | hair (body) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | ||
| Samples | There is a hair in my soup. | ||
| Synonyms | pilus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | filament, filum | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ingrown hair | ||
| Part meronym | mammal, mammalian | ||
| 5. | hair (artifact) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | ||
| Synonyms | haircloth | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cloth, fabric, material, textile | ||
| 6. | hair (animal) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | appendage, outgrowth, process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bristle, pilus, sensory hair, seta, vibrissa, whisker | ||
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