hair

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Related terms

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Middle English hēr, heer, hær, Old English hǣr from Proto-Germanic *haeram. A cognate of the latter seems to be Lithuanian šerys. From the same Germanic word come, indirectly, Old Frisian hēr, Dutch haar, German Haar, Old High German hār, Icelandic hár and Swedish hår.

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• enPR: /hâr/, IPA: /heə/, /heɹ/, SAMPA: /he@/
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• hare

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hair (countable and uncountable; plural hairs) (but usually in singular)

1. (countable, uncountable) A pigmented keratinaceous growth that forms thin spires and grows out from a follicle on the human head, or the collection of them.

   Quotations

   Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. - Chaucer

   And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. - Spenser

   Young man, comb your hair at home, not in the classroom.

   She said she couldn't go out with me Friday - she had to wash her hair.

2. (uncountable) The collection or mass of filaments 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.

   The hair on a bear makes a warm fur coat.

3. (zoology, countable) 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. (botany, countable) 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. (obsolete) A haircloth. - Chaucer
6. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

   Just a little louder please - turn that knob a hair to the right.

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against the hair bad hair day bed hair facial hair fair-haired get in somebody's hair hair bracket hairbreadth, hairsbreadth hair brush, hairbrush haircare, hair care hair cells haircut hairdo hairdresser hair dryer

hair dye hair gel hair glove hair lace hairless hair line, hairline hair moss hair moth hairnet hair of the dog hair pencil hairpiece hairpin hair plate hair powder

hair-raising hair seal hair seating hair shirt hair sieve hair snake hair space hairspray, hair spray hair stroke hairstyle hair-trigger hairy head of hair hide nor hair, neither hide nor hair horsehair

let one's hair down make somebody's hair curl make somebody's hair stand on end not turn a hair not worth a hair part one's hair pubic hair put hair on somebody's chest split hairs tear one's hair out to a hair

[edit] Related terms

• haircut
• hairy
• hirsute