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# hair

«hair» in Mova's school dictionary: **what grows on your head and on parts of your body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hair — usually uncountable; a hair, hairs — single strands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hair is what grows on your head and on parts of your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#m1)

2) A hair is one single thin strand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#m2)

3) Hair, or fur, also grows on many animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

A word of the story; sometimes a length that grows or is cut, or a haircut price. In science: hair grows from roots in the skin; mammals have hair. In health: brush and wash your hair; head lice spread by touching heads. Phrases: «brush your hair», «haircut», «by a hair», «let your hair down», «hair-raising».

### examples

- Her hair is 30 cm long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x1)
- She cut 5 cm off her hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x2)
- Hair grows about 1 cm a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x3)
- A haircut costs 15 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x4)
- I found a hair in my soup! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x5)
- Grandpa's hair is grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x6)
- Do not share combs, or you may share head lice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x7)
- She won the race by a hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x8)
- What if the hair should break? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/#x9)

### note

Cutting takes away length, growing adds. Trap: hair often only describes a person (red hair) and gives no number. Hair on your head is uncountable: «her hair is long», not «her hairs are long». Homophone: hare (an animal like a big rabbit).

### In the corpora

- [Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/14/)
- [Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/13/)
- [Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/12/)
- [The nose warms and moistens air, and its hairs and sticky mucus catch dust and germs before they reach the lungs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/12/)
- [Fine hairs on spiders' legs sense the tiniest air movements and tell the spider which way they come from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hair» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hair/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.