filament vs hair

hair vs filament

filament and hair both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
filament	Yes	No	No	No
hair	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hair is a hyponym of filament; that is, hair is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than filament:

filament: a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
hair: any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

Other hyponyms of filament include pilus.

filament (noun)	hair (noun)
a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current	a filamentous projection or process on an organism
a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)	cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
the stalk of a stamen	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
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber	any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
	filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
	a very small distance or space

Difference between filament and hair

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