hairline vs meagre

hairline

adj
  • very thin, as thin as a hair 

noun
  • A fishing line made from hair. 

  • The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. 

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

  • A very thin fissure. 

meagre

adj
  • Having little flesh; lean; thin. 

  • Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent 

  • Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). 

  • Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. 

verb
  • To make lean. 

noun
  • Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. 

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