hair meaning
EN
[hɛə] [hɛɚ] 
US UK WHair
- Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis, or skin. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.
FR haïr 
- NounPLhairs
- NC A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- NU The collection or mass of such growths 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.
- In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
- (zoology) NC 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.
- (botany) NC 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).
- OBS Haircloth; a hair shirt.
- NC Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
- NC A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
- The condition may be associated with neurosensorial deafness 1 and is probably caused by changes in the internal hair sheath.
- The authors used a hairless skin from the forearm for prelamination on gracilis to avoid hair formation within the urethra.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Hair cells were more severely damaged in blood injected ears than in cochleostomy only ears.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The man, aged in his 30s, is described as caucasian with olive skin, medium build, about 175cm tall and has short dark hair.
- Tired of her flat hairstyle, Vicki volumized her hair.
- Your mum will have kittens when she sees what you've done to your hair!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hair in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en hairy
- en haired
- en hairdresser
- en hairless
- en hairpin
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "hair" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.