hair

noun

1. 1

   a filamentous projection or process on an organism

2. 2

   cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

3. 3

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

   there is a hair in my soup

4. 4

   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

5. 5

   filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

   peach fuzz

6. 6

   a very small distance or space

   they escaped by a hair's-breadth

   they lost the election by a whisker