HAIRLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairline mean? 

• HAIRLINE (noun)
  The noun HAIRLINE has 2 senses:

1. a very thin line

2. the natural margin formed by hair on the head

  Familiarity information: HAIRLINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very thin line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hairline" is a kind of...):

line (a mark that is long relative to its width)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hairline"):

hair stroke (a very fine line in writing or printing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The natural margin formed by hair on the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hairline" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; bounds (the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something)

Meronyms (parts of "hairline"):

widow's peak (a V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead)

Holonyms ("hairline" is a part of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

 Context examples 

The part of the face between the eyebrows and the normal hairline.

(Forehead, NCI Thesaurus)