HAIR'S BREADTH

Meaning of HAIR'S BREADTH in English

noun

[ sing. ] a very small amount or distance :

We won by a hair's breadth.

They were within a hair's breadth of being killed.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

HAIR'S BREADTH — ˈhair’s breadth BrE AmE noun [singular] a very small amount or distance: The bullet missed me by a hair’s breadth.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAIR’S BREADTH — A hair’s breadth is a very small degree or amount. The dollar fell to within a hair’s breadth of its …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR’S BREADTH — A ~ is a very small degree or amount. The dollar fell to within a ~ of its all-time low... …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HAIR'S BREADTH — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I came within a hair's breadth of losing my life. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR'S-BREADTH — толщина волоса; минимальная ширина - to miss by a * чуть-чуть промахнуться опоздать на ничтожную долю секунды - accurate to …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HAIR'S-BREADTH — = hairbreadth I
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HAIR'S BREADTH — - hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HAIR'S BREADTH — (n) минимальная ширина; толщина волоса
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HAIR'S-BREADTH — = hairbreadth I
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HAIR'S-BREADTH — = hairbreadth I
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR'S BREADTH — минимальное расстояние, ничтожное расстояние
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HAIR'S BREADTH — минимальное расстояние, ничтожное расстояние
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HAIR'S BREADTH — - hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
HAIR'S BREADTH — ничтожное, минимальное расстояние
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
HAIR'S-BREADTH — толщина волоса; минимальная ширина - to miss by a * чуть-чуть промахнуться опоздать на ничтожную долю секунды - accurate to …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR'S BREADTH — = hairbreadth
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR — I. ˈha(a)](ə)r, ˈhe], ]ə noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English her, heer, hare, heir, hair, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BREADTH — ˈbredth, -etth, chiefly in substand speech -eth noun ( -s ) Etymology: obsolete English brede breadth (from Middle English, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAIR — — hairlike , adj. /hair/ , n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BREADTH — — breadthless , adj. /bredth, bretth, breth/ , n. 1. the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIR — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old High German hār hair Date: before …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BREADTH — noun Etymology: Middle English breadeth, breth, from brede breadth (from Old English brǣdu, from brād broad) + -th (as in …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAIR — noun a haircloth. 2. hair ·noun a spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. 3. hair ·noun any very small …
Webster English vocab
HAIR — [hair] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE haer; akin to OHG har hair] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a slender threadlike …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BREADTH — [breadth] n [obs. E brede breadth (fr. ME, fr. OE braedu, fr. brad broad) + -th (as in length)] (15c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAIR — in mammals, the characteristic threadlike outgrowths of the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) that form an animal's coat, or …
Britannica English vocabulary
BREADTH — breadth BrE AmE bredθ bretθ, § breθ ▷ breadths bredθs bretθs, § breθs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HAIR — / heə(r); NAmE her/ noun 1. [ U , C ] the substance that looks like a mass of fine …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREADTH — / bredθ; NAmE / noun [ U , C ] 1. the distance or measurement from one side to the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — hair S1 W1 /heə $ her/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ hair , ↑ hairiness ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BREADTH — breadth /bredθ, bretθ/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Origin: brede 'breadth' (11-19 centuries) (from Old English brædu , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BREADTH — n. 1 the distance or measurement from side to side of a thing; broadness. 2 a piece (of cloth etc.) …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BREADTH — n. 1 the distance or measurement from side to side of a thing; broadness. 2 a piece (of cloth etc.) …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HAIR — n.1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b …
Oxford English vocab
BREADTH — n.1 the distance or measurement from side to side of a thing; broadness. 2 a piece (of cloth etc.) of …
Oxford English vocab
HAIR — ( hairs) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Your hair is the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREADTH — 1. The breadth of something is the distance between its two sides. The breadth of the whole camp was 400 …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hair appointment (= to have your hair cut ) ▪ I’d like to make …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BREADTH — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hair's breadth ▪ The bullet missed me by a hair’s breadth. sb's breadth of knowledge …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR — [noun] - the mass of thin threadlike structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that …
Cambridge English vocab
BREADTH — [noun] [U] - the distance from one side to another, or (figurative) the quality of consisting of or including many …
Cambridge English vocab
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Slang English vocab
BREADTH — n. Function: noun 1 Synonyms: EXPANSE , amplitude, distance, expansion, space, spread, stretch 2 spaciousness of extent FF1C; the breadth …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BREADTH — noun 1. Synonyms: expanse , amplitude, distance, expansion, space, spread, stretch 2. spaciousness of extent the breadth of his knowledge …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIR — n. 25B6; noun her thick black hair : HEAD OF HAIR, shock of hair, mane, mop; locks, tresses, curls, ringlets. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BREADTH — n. 25B6; noun a breadth of 100 metres : WIDTH, broadness, wideness, thickness; span; diameter. the breadth of his knowledge …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BREADTH — n. 1 width, wideness, broadness, beam, span, spread, thickness The breadth of the cloth is 54in 2 extent, magnitude, degree, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Словарь английских идиом
HAIR — The Hebrews were fully alive to the importance of the hair as an element of personal beauty. Long hair was …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
HAIR — noun 1 BAD : He had a black hair and very clear eyes. GOOD : He had black hair and …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
HAIR — сущ. 1) волосы to brush hair, comb hair ≈ причесывать волосы to backcomb hair, tease hair амер. hair ≈ начесывать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREADTH — сущ. 1) ширина Let the world go as it will, we shall have our length and our breadth at last. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR — hair.ogg 1. heə n 1. собир. волосы thick thin hair - густые редкие волосы in one's hair - а) без …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BREADTH — breadth.ogg bredθ,bretθ n 1. ширина the room is six feet in breadth - ширина комнаты шесть футов 2. полотнище; определённая …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BREADTH — ширина - extreme breadth - molded breadth - overall breadth - registered breadth - register breadth - tonnage breadth - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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