hair care haircare hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair |
change of color | an act that changes the light that something reflects |
hair coloring | the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair |
brewer's mole hair-tailed mole Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
whisker vibrissa sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
earless seal true seal hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
camel's hair camelhair | a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel |
color television colour television color television system colour television system color TV colour TV | a television that transmits images in color |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
color wash colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
cross hair cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
curler hair curler roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
field-sequential color television field-sequential color TV field-sequential color television system field-sequential color TV system | an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors |
haircloth hair | cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstery or stiffening in garments |
hairdressing hair tonic hair oil hair grease | a toiletry for the hair |
hairpiece false hair postiche | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment |
hair shirt | an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair, worn next to the skin as a penance |
hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters |
hair spray | toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place |
hair trigger | a gun trigger that responds with little pressure |
hand blower blow dryer blow drier hair dryer hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
mousse hair mousse hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
oil oil color oil colour | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist |
sable sable brush sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
tempera poster paint poster color poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
color colour | the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation |
semblance gloss color colour | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading, he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity, he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction, the situation soon took on a different color |
color of law colour of law | a mere semblance of legal right, something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law, the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights |
color colour coloring colouring | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect, a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light |
primary color primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
chromatic color chromatic colour spectral color spectral colour | a color that has hue |
achromatic color achromatic colour | a color lacking hue, white or grey or black |
copper copper color | a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper |
color property | an attribute of color |
complementary color complementary | either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments), yellow and blue are complementaries |
hair coloring | coloring of the hair, her hairoloring was unusual: a very pale gold |
complexion skin color skin colour | the coloring of a person's face |
nonsolid color nonsolid colour dithered color dithered colour | a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color |
color colour coloration colouration | the timbre of a musical sound, the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music |
color colour vividness | interest and variety and intensity, the Puritan Period was lacking in color, the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness |
hair cell | a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti |
hair pilus | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal, there is a hair in my soup |
ingrown hair | a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) |
hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head), helps to prevent heat loss, he combed his hair, each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells |