[ US /ˈhɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /hˈe‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
  2. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
    peach fuzz
  3. 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
    each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
    he combed his hair
  4. a very small distance or space
    they escaped by a hair's-breadth
    they lost the election by a whisker
  5. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
    there is a hair in my soup
  6. a filamentous projection or process on an organism
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How To Use hair In A Sentence

  • Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
  • Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
  • In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry. THE WHITE DOVE
  • The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
  • It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
  • Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
  • I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
  • Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
  • But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
  • She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
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