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Hairlike

Definition: Hairlike

Hairlike

Adjective

1. Long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Hairlike

Synonym: capillary (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hairlike

English words defined with "hairlike": bearded iris ♦ Chevelure, Cilia, Ciliata, ciliate, ciliated, Ciliophora, cilium, Cirrigerous, Cirrigrade, class Ciliata, class Ciliophora, Crinet, Crinite ♦ earless seal ♦ Filoplume, fuzz ♦ hair, Hair cells, hair seal ♦ lanate, Lanated, Like figures, long moss ♦ moth ♦ old man's beard ♦ pilus ♦ root hair ♦ Spanish moss ♦ Tillandsia usneoides, tomentum, Trichite, Trichogyne, true seal ♦ villus ♦ Wood quail, woolly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hairlike": BASKET MENDER ♦ Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ♦ Fimbriae, Bacterial ♦ hair salt, hairstone ♦ Malpighian Tubules ♦ Neurites ♦ splint coal. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Hairlike

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They are small enough to bypass the natural defenses of upper respiratory passages, such as hairs in the nose or the hairlike cilia in the bronchial tubes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translations: Hairlike

Language		Translations for "hairlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		haaragtig (piliform), capilliform (piliform). (various references)

Dutch		haarvormig (piliform), piliform (piliform). (various references)

French		capilliforme. (various references)

German		haarartig, capilliformis (piliform). (various references)

Greek		τριχοειδής (capillary, hair, hairy, piliform, pilose, pilous). (various references)

Pig Latin		airlikehay.(various references)

Spanish		capiliforme (piliform). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Hairlike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-i-k-l-r"
	-1 letter: airlike.
	-2 letters: hailer, lakier.
	-3 letters: alike, ariel, haler, hiker, hilar, laker, liker.
	-4 letters: aril, earl, elhi, haik, hail, hair, hake, hale, hare, hark, harl, heal, hear, heil, heir, herl, hike, hila, hili, hire, ilea, ilia, ilka, kail, kale, keir, kier, lair, lake, lakh, lari, lark, leak, lear, lehr, liar, lier, like, lira, lire, liri, rail, rake, raki, rale, real, rhea, rial, riel, rile.
	-5 letters: ail, air, ale, are, ark, ear, elk, era, hae, her, hie, ilk, ire, irk, kae, kea, khi, kir, lar, lea, lei, lek, lie, rah, rei, ria.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-i-k-l-r"
	+2 letters: wraithlike.
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Alternative Orthography: Hairlike

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 69 72 6C 69 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.... .- .. .-. .-.. .. -.- .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#108 &#105 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0069 0072 006C 0069 006B 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267758478757771

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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