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hairline

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As a noun, hairline means the line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. As an adjective, it means very thin, as thin as a hair.

Meanings of hairline

6 meanings

noun

  1. The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.

    “It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.”

  2. A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.

  3. A fishing line made from hair.

  4. A very thin fissure.

    “While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.”

  5. The natural margin formed by hair on the headbody

adjective

  1. Very thin, as thin as a hair

    “There was a hairline crack in the airplane's wing.”

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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