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hair [n]

1)	dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"

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body_covering integumentary_system coat guard_hair mane forelock beard body_hair down head_of_hair hairline part cowlick coiffure curl beard moustache bush brow cilium ceratin

2)	a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

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hair's-breadth hairsbreadth whisker

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small_indefinite_amount

3)	filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

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fuzz tomentum

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enation stinging_hair coma beard

4)	any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"

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pilus

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filament mammal ingrown_hair

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

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haircloth

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cloth

6)	a filamentous projection or process on an organism

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appendage bristle sensory_hair seta pilus

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

[back-formation from hairy] The complications that make something hairy. "Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair." Often seen in the phrase "infinite hair", which connotes extreme complexity. Also in "hairiferous" (tending to promote hair growth): "GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes." "Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right." (Or just: "Hair squared!")

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