DICTOMETER

HAIR

(hair, cabello, melena, pelo, hår)

1. Synonyms:
   • Hair
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Examples:
   • He combed his hair
   • Each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Hair's-breadth
   • Hairsbreadth
   • Hair
   • Whisker
   Definitions:
   • a very small distance or space
   Examples:
   • They escaped by a hair's-breadth
   • They lost the election by a whisker
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Hair
   • Fuzz
   • Tomentum
   Definitions:
   • filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
   Examples:
   • Peach fuzz
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Hair
   • Pilus
   Definitions:
   • any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
   Examples:
   • There is a hair in my soup
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Haircloth
   • Hair
   Definitions:
   • cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair
   • used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Hair
   Definitions:
   • a filamentous projection or process on an organism