Meaning of 'hair'

noun

a filamentous projection or process on an organism

noun

cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair

Synonyms: haircloth

noun

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

Example: "there is a hair in my soup"

Synonyms: pilus

noun

a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head)

noun

filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

Synonyms: tomentum fuzz

noun

a very small distance or space

Example: "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"

Synonyms: whisker hair's-breadth hairsbreadth