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Hair vs. Lint — What's the Difference?

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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