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• Hair care — is an overall term for parts of hygiene and cosmetology involving the hair on the human head. Hair care will differ according to one s hair type and according to various processes that can be applied to hair. All hair is not the same; indeed,… …   Wikipedia

• hair-splitting — making over nice distinctions, by 1739, from HAIR (Cf. hair) + SPLIT (Cf. split). To split hairs make over fine distinctions is first recorded 1650s, as to cut the hair. Hair also being 18c. slang for female pudendum, hair splitter was noted in… …   Etymology dictionary

• hair-splitting — n [U] when people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument →split hairs at ↑split1 (8) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• hair-splitting — ► NOUN ▪ the making of overfine distinctions …   English terms dictionary

• hair-splitting — hair split|ting [ her ,splıtıŋ ] noun uncount the activity of arguing about unimportant details or differences …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• hair — hairlike, adj. /hair/, n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus. 2. an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most… …   Universalium

• hair — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b these collectively (his hair is falling out). 2 a an artificially produced hairlike strand, e.g. in a brush. b a mass of such hairs. 3… …   Useful english dictionary

• hair — [[t]he͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ hairs 1) N VAR: usu supp N Your hair is the fine threads that grow in a mass on your head. I wash my hair every night... He has black hair. ...a girl with long blonde hair... I get some grey hairs but I pull them out. 2) N VAR …   English dictionary

• hair-splitting — noun the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people. Dicks Tribune poked endless fun at the hair splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes… …   Wiktionary

• hair-splitting — split hairs to argue about whether details that are not important are exactly correct. I don t have very much patience with all this legal hair splitting …   New idioms dictionary

• hair-splitting — noun the action of making overfine distinctions. Derivatives hair splitter noun …   English new terms dictionary