Hair vs. Lint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hair and Lint
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Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.
Lint
Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz.
Hair
Any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals
Thick black hairs on his huge arms
Coarse outer hairs overlie the thick underfur
Lint
Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.
Hair
Hairs collectively, especially those growing on a person's head
Her shoulder-length fair hair
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Lint
The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.
Hair
A very small quantity or extent
His magic takes him a hair above the competition
Lint
Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
Clean the lint out of the vacuum cleaner's filter.
Hair
Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
Lint
A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
Hair
A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.
Lint
The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
Hair
A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.
Lint
Raw cotton ready for baling.
Hair
Fabric made from the hair of certain animals
A coat of alpaca hair.
Lint
To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.
You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.
Hair
A minute distance or narrow margin
Won by a hair.
Lint
Flax.
Hair
A precise or exact degree
Calibrated to a hair.
Lint
Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
Hair
(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
Lint
Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
Hair
(uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
Lint
Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
Hair
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.
Hair
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).
Hair
(countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
Hair
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.
Hair
(obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
Hair
(countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
Hair
Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
Hair
(transitive) To remove the hair from.
Hair
(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
Hair
(transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
Hair
To string the bow for a violin.
Hair
The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
Hair
One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
Hair
Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
Hair
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.
Hair
An 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).
Hair
A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
Hair
A haircloth.
Hair
Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Hair
Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss;
He combed his hair
Hair
A very small distance or space;
They escaped by a hair's-breadth
They lost the election by a whisker
Hair
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;
Peach fuzz
Hair
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;
There is a hair in my soup
Hair
Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
Hair
A filamentous projection or process on an organism
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