whisker vs hair

hair vs whisker

whisker and hair both are nouns.

whisker is a verb but hair is not a verb.

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

As nouns, hair is a hypernym of whisker; that is, hair is a word with a broader meaning than whisker:

whisker: a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
hair: a filamentous projection or process on an organism

As nouns, whisker and hair are synonyms defined as:

whisker and hair: a very small distance or space

Other synonyms of whisker include hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth.

whisker (noun)	hair (noun)
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat	a filamentous projection or process on an organism
a very small distance or space	cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
	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
	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

whisker (verb)	hair (verb)
furnish with whiskers

Difference between whisker and hair

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