different between hairline vs forehead
hairline
English
Etymology
hair +? line
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?h???la?n/
Noun
hairline (plural hairlines)
- The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.
- It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.
- A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.
- A fishing line made from hair.
- A very thin fissure.
- While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.
Translations
Adjective
hairline
- very thin, as thin as a hair
- There was a hairline crack in the airplane's wing.
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forehead
English
Etymology
From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English f?reh?afod, foranh?afod (“forehead”), corresponding to fore- +? head. Cognate withScots foreheid (“forehead”),Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).
Alternative forms
- for'ead, forrad, forread, forred, forrid (variable or uncertain spellings representing dialect or variant pronunciation)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??h?d/, /?f????d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???h?d/
Noun
forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)
- (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan
- 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan
- (uncountable) confidence; audacity
- The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.
Synonyms
- brow
Translations
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