HAIRLINE


Meaning of HAIRLINE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

hairline fracture (= very thin crack )

a hairline fracture

receding hairline

He was in his mid-forties, with a receding hairline .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

crack

The wind still managed to find a way through the hairline crack , whistling eerily around the interior of the freight car.

A hairline crack runs down through the middle of the glass.

fracture

But doctors did not spot the hairline fracture until a routine check on the plates after she left.

I was worried about a hairline fracture , but luckily it was just a bad lump.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A hairline distinction exists between this description of personal experience and the evaluation of a work.

Apparently, all that yoga stuff doesn't work for the hairline .

By the artistic team at Zoo Ultra short hairline contrasts with thick natural waves.

He still wears a sailor suit, the cowlick at his hairline gives his forelock a life of its own.

His long bushy eyebrows, mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all.

I was worried about a hairline fracture, but luckily it was just a bad lump.

My hairline had ascended another inch or so.

Yo mumbles to herself at the windows outlining her hairline with a contemplative index finger.

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