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How to pronounce hair in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker
Type of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount


they escaped by a hair's-breadth.
Type Words
Synonyms pilus
Type of filament, filum
Has types ingrown hair


there is a hair in my soup.
Type Words
Synonyms haircloth
Type of textile, material, cloth, fabric
Type Words
Synonyms fuzz, tomentum
Type of enation, plant process
Has types stinging hair, beard
Type Words
Type of body covering
Has types beard, pile, body hair, brow, bush, cilium, coat, coif, coiffure, cowlick, crotch hair, curl, down, eyebrow, eyelash, facial hair, forelock, foretop, guard hair, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, head of hair, lash, lock, mane, pelage, pubic hair, ringlet, supercilium, whorl
Derivation hairy


he combed his hair.
each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells.
Type Words
Type of outgrowth, process, appendage
Has types sensory hair, bristle, seta, whisker, pilus, vibrissa
Derivation hairy

Examples of hair

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Syler is described as having brown hair, green eyes and weighing just 20 pounds.
From the abcnews.go.com
Serna, who is Hispanic, is 5-foot-8, 210 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
From the sacbee.com
Looking at that gray hair of yours, it's obvious you're getting up there in age.
From the democratandchronicle.com
The man was described as 18 to 25 years old, well groomed, with dark curly hair.
From the denverpost.com
Instead, spray hair spray into your hands and quickly pull it through your hair.
From the timesunion.com
Martell lives with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
From the abcnews.go.com
For a sleek ponytail, add a little Moroccan oil to damp hair before blow-drying.
From the kansas.com
She casts a spell that causes Kyle to lose his hair and grow scars and pustules.
From the freep.com
Irfan, when he talked to her at all, often chided her for not covering her hair.
From the washingtonpost.com
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  • 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"
  • Hair's-breadth: a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
  • Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"
  • Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
  • Haircloth: cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
  • A filamentous projection or process on an organism
  • Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. The human body, apart from its glabrous skin, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and fine vellus hair. ...
  • Ha'ir (lit The City) is a weekly local newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tabloid-sized newspaper was first published in October 1980. Since April 2005 when there was a major shakeup in the business structure of newspaper's publisher, Schocken Group, it has been distributed for free.
  • The following is a list of episodes from the American animated series Rugrats. The show first aired on Sunday August 11, 1991. The first three seasons aired between 1991-1995. The series returned with comeback specials in December 1996 and May 1997. ...