Meaning

4 senses
  1. The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.

    It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.

    Haaransatz

  2. A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.

    a very thin line

  3. (figuratively)A very thin fissure.

    While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.

    There was a hairline crack in the airplane's wing.

    Haarriss

  4. A fishing line made from hair.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom's hairline is receding.

    deToms Haaransatz weicht zurück. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom has a receding hairline.

    deTom hat einen zurückweichenden Haaransatz. — brauchinet

  3. My hairline is receding.

    deMein Haaransatz weicht zurück. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. He's worried about his receding hairline.

    deEr macht sich über seine Geheimratsecken Sorgen. — Aldain

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  5. He's not even 30 and he has a receding hairline.

    ruЕму ещё нет тридцати, но волосы уже редеют. — Ooneykcall

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
line along one's forehead where hair starts growing:
very thin fissure:

Origin

From hair + line.

From hair + line.

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Forms

plural: hairlines
Singularhairline
Pluralhairlines

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hairline — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto