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Definition: Hair Ball |
Hair BallNoun1. A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Grass. . . should always be available as it helps the cat bring up any hair swallowed, preventing --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Hair BallSynonyms: hairball (n), trichobezoar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hair Ball |
| Specialty definitions using "hair ball": hairy ball. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hair ball | 31 |
cat hair ball | 16 |
hair ball in cat | 4 |
hair ball remedy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hair ball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | boule de poils. (various references) | |
German | haarknäuel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airhay allbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hairball. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: barilla. | |
-2 letters: bharal, labial. | |
-3 letters: brail, brill, hilar, laari, labia, labra, lahar, libra. | |
-4 letters: abri, alar, alba, aria, aril, baal, bail, ball, bill, birl, blah, haar, hail, hair, hall, harl, hila, hill, lair, lari, liar, lira, raia, rail, rial, rill. | |
-5 letters: aah, aal, aba, aha, ail, air, ala, alb, all, arb, baa, bah, bal, bar, bra, ill, lab, lar, lib, rah, ria, rib. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-h-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: hairballs. | |
+2 letters: bilharzial. | |
+4 letters: behaviorally. | |
+5 letters: lamellibranch. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 69 72 42 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a i r   B a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0069 0072 0042 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42677584236677878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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