Noun | 1. | hair - dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair" |
2. | hair - a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" | |
3. | hair - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" | |
4. | hair - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" Synonyms: pilus | |
5. | hair - cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments Synonyms: haircloth | |
6. | hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
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!") |