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bald
(bôld)adj. bald·er, bald·est
1. Lacking hair on the head.
2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.
3. Lacking treads: a bald tire.
4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals.
5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.
6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy.
[Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see ball1. Sense 4, perhaps partly of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh bal, having a white streak on the forehead (of horses), Irish ball, spot, mark, and English blaze, white mark on the face of an animal; see blaze2.]
bald′ly adv.
bald′ness n.
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Baldness
baldness. Also called alopecia, phalacrosis. — acomous, adj.
Medicine. medical specialist who treats baldness.
Medicine. congenital or acquired baldness. Also atrichosis.
baldness, especially at the top or back of the head. — calvous, adj.
a dread of baldness.
baldness.
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Baldness
See Also:HAIR
- Bald as a ballpeen hammer —Thomas Lux
- Bald as a brass knob —Beverly Farmer
- Bald as a nun —Patrick White
- Bald and wrinkled as a lizard —Sarah Bird
See Also:WRINKLES
- Bald as a balloon —Percival Wilde
- Bald as a barefaced lie —Anon
- Bald as a bearing —Loren D. Estleman
- Bald as a billiard ball —Anon
Of the many objects comparatively linked with baldness, the billiard or cue ball probably ranks at the very top.
- Bald as a brick —Raymond Chandler
- Bald as an egg —Anon
- Bald as a football —William Boyd
- Bald as an orange —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Bald as a winter tree —William Morris
- Bald as convicts —George Garrett
- Bald as peeled onion —Margaret Laurence
- Bald as the beach —William Diehl
- Bald as the palm of your hand —Richard Harris Barham
- Bald as time —Richard Prome
- Bald head shining like a polished stone —George Garrett
- The gleaming skull [of bald-headed man] shone like a supernatural sun —Sholem Asch
- Had gone completely bald very young as though to get that over with as soon as possible —Helen Hudson
- Hair beginning to recede like the polar ice cap in warm weather —Jean Thompson
- Head as smooth as a knob —Russell Baker, New York Times, May 17, 1986
- He had a bald patch on the top of his head which made him look rather like a monk —Guy De Maupassant
- He was bald, his back hair was thick and projected like one of those large tree mushrooms that grow on the mossy side of a trunk —Saul Bellow
- His bald head coming to a point, like an egg —Richard Llwellyn
- His bald head shone … like an agitated moon —Erich Maria Remarque
- His head [bald, with ring of grey-brown hair] was like the brown edges of a leaf in fall, a sign that the tree, however tall and green from a distance, was being eaten away at the edges, dying from the outside in —Jay Parini
- His strong, bald head had a dull glow, like old ivory —Ivan Bunin
- No more hair than a stone —John MacDonald
- A semi-circular fringe of white hair surrounding his bald pate like a broken halo —Margaret Millar
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Noun | 1. | baldness - the condition of having no hair on the top of the head depilation, hairlessness - the condition of being void of hair alopecia - loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) male pattern baldness, male-patterned baldness - loss of hair on the crown of the head |
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baldness
noun hairlessness, alopecia (Pathology), baldheadedness, baldpatedness, glabrousness (Biology) He wears a cap to cover a spot of baldness.
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صَلَع
plešatostsuchopárnost
skaldethed
kopaszság
skalli
plešivosť
dazlaklıkkellik
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bald
(boːld) adjective1. (of people) with little or no hair on the head. a bald head; He is going bald (= becoming bald).
2. (of birds, animals) without feathers, fur etc. a bald patch on the dog's back.
3. bare or plain. a bald statement of the facts.
ˈbaldness nounˈbalding adjective
becoming bald.
ˈbaldly adverb in a plain or bare way. He answered her questions baldly.
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bald·ness
n. calvicie.
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baldness
n calvicie f; frontal — calvicie frontal; vertex — calvicie del vértice, calvicie de la parte superior de la cabezaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.