Hair

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

   “And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.”

2. isim The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.
3. isim Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp.

   “In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.”

4. isim 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.
5. isim 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).”

6. isim Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.

   “(uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.”

7. isim A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
8. isim Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

   “Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.”

9. isim Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.

   “January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.”

10. fiil To remove the hair from.

    “By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.”

11. fiil To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

    “He has haired up and healed over.”

12. fiil To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

    “THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.”

13. fiil To string the bow for a violin.

    “The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.”

14. özel isim A surname.