Dictionary

hairline en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈhɛɹˌlaɪn/ (US)

Etymology

From hair + line.

Meanings

1. The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.
   • Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline. 1984 May 28, Claudia Wallis, “Gone Today, but Hair Tomorrow”, in Time:
   • 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. (figuratively) A very thin fissure.
   • Yup, you got a crack in it [the cylinder head] all right. Just a hairline, but that damn thing is gonna cause a big headache later. 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:
   • There was a hairline crack in the airplane's wing.
   • While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.
4. A fishing line made from hair.

Forms

Deriveds

hairlined · hairlining

Translations (16)

es nacimiento piloso (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · scn scrima (thin line) · scn çaccazza (very thin fissure) · nn hårfeste (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · scn scrima (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · fi hiusviiva (thin line) · no hårfeste (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · tr saç çizgisi (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · de Haarriss (very thin fissure) · fi hiusraja (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · es línea capilar (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · fi hiusmurtuma (very thin fissure) · cmn 髮際線 /发际线 (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · hu hajvonal (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · de Haaransatz (line along one's forehead where hair starts growing) · hu hajszálvonal (thin line)