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hair
noun
a filamentous projection or process on an organism
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hɛə
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noun
a filamentous projection or process on an organism
noun
cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
noun
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
“there is a hair in my soup”
noun
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
“he combed his hair”
noun
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
“peach fuzz”
noun
a very small distance or space
“they escaped by a hair's breadth”
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there is a hair in my soup
he combed his hair
each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
peach fuzz
they escaped by a hair's breadth
they lost the election by a whisker
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