different between hair vs hide

English

Etymology

From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hâr, IPA^(key): /h??/, /h??/, /h??/
• (US, Canada, Ireland) IPA^(key): /h?(?)?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /he?/
  • (Victoria) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [hi?]
• Homophone: hare
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• (General New Zealand) Homophones: here (cheer–chair merger), air, heir (cheer–chair merger and H-dropping)

Noun

hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)

1. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

   • Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.

   • And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
2. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:

     Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.

3. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
4. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

5. (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
6. (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Second Nun's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:

     She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.
7. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

8. (slang, uncountable) complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy
   • Barack Obama

     Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.

Usage notes

• The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb.

• Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

Derived terms

Related terms

• depilatory

Translations

Verb

hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)

1. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
2. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
3. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
4. To string the bow for a violin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hari, Hira, Ihar, Riha, riah

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??/

Verb

hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Noun

hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hair (plural haires)

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 2

Noun

hair (plural haires or hairen)

1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 3

Adjective

hair

1. Alternative form of hor (“hoar”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hair

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• hadir, ha?ir, haïr

Etymology

From Frankish *hattjan.

Verb

hair

1. to hate

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. First person singular present hez and present subjunctives are inherited from Frankish with regular sound changes of *-ttj- > -z/c-. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• haïne

Descendants

• Middle French: haïr
  • French: haïr
• Norman: haï

English

Alternative forms

• hyde (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?d, IPA^(key): /ha?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English h?dan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *h?dijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to conceal”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd?- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611) both hid and hidden are used for the past participle.

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past hid, past participle hidden or (archaic) hid)

1. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

   Synonyms: conceal, hide away, secrete

   Antonyms: disclose, expose, reveal, show, uncover

   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.

2. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

   Synonyms: go undercover, hide away, hide out, lie low

   Antonyms: reveal, show

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English h?d, of Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *h?di, from Proto-Germanic *h?diz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew-t- (“skin, hide”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). More at sky.

Noun

hide (plural hides)

2. (countable) The skin of an animal.

   Synonyms: pelt, skin

3. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
4. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
   • 1957, Ayn Rand, Francisco d'Anconia's speech in Atlas Shrugged:

     The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as I think he will.

5. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
6. (countable, architecture) A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
7. (countable) A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past and past participle hided)

1. To beat with a whip made from hide.
   • 1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

     He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hide, from Old English h?d, h?d, h??ed, h??id (“a measure of land”), for earlier *h?wid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *h?waz, *h?w? (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). Related to Old English h?wisc (“hide of land, household”), Old English h?wan (“members of a family, household”). More at hewe, hind.

Noun

hide (plural hides)

1. (historical) A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. [from 9th c.]
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 488:

     The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.

   Synonym: carucate

Usage notes

The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed (in England) to the Saxon and Norman kings, and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year.

Hypernyms

• (100 hides) barony

Hyponyms

• (¹?₄ hide) See virgate
• (¹?₈ hide) See oxgang
• (¹?₁₆ hide) nook
• farundel

Anagrams

• Heid, Ihde, hied

Albanian

Alternative forms

• ide

Etymology

From Turkish i?de (“oleaster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hid?/

Noun

hide f (indefinite plural hide, definite singular hidja, definite plural hidet)

1. (botany) jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)

Synonyms

• xinxife

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

from Old English h?d, h?d, h??ed, h??id (“a measure of land”), from earlier *h?wid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *h?waz, *h?w? (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), related to *h?wô (“household”).

Noun

hide (plural hides or hiden or hide)

1. hide (unit of land)

Alternative forms

• hyde

Descendants

• English: hide
• Scots: hyd, hid

References

• “h?de, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From hiden (“to hide”).

Noun

hide

1. concealment
2. hiding spot

Alternative forms

• hid, hyd, hyde

Descendants

• English: hide
• Scots: hide

References

• “h?d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

hide (plural hides or hiden)

1. Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hide

1. Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hide (plural hides)

1. Alternative form of heed (“head”)

Etymology 6

Verb

hide (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)

1. Alternative form of hiden (“to hide”)