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Meaning of hair

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hair
      n 1: 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";
           "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
      2: a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a
         hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" [syn:
         {hair's-breadth}, {hairsbreadth}, {hair}, {whisker}]
      3: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn:
         {hair}, {fuzz}, {tomentum}]
      4: any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing
         from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
         [syn: {hair}, {pilus}]
      5: cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery
         or stiffening in garments [syn: {haircloth}, {hair}]
      6: a filamentous projection or process on an organism

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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