Whats the difference between fur and hair?

Answer 1

Fur is defined as fur because it has 2 layers, ground fur (soft and fine), and then guard hair (longer and more thick/course), the 2 together are determined as 'fur' rather than hair. Both animals and people can have either.

Answer 2

Animals have fur, humans have hair.

Answer 3

Fur:
1. the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
2. the skin of certain animals, as the sable, ermine, or beaver, covered with such a coat, used for lining, trimming, or making garments.
3. a garment made of fur.
4. any coating resembling or suggesting fur, as certain matter on the tongue.
5. Heraldry. any conventional representation of a fur, as ermine, vair, potent, or their variations.
–adjective
6. of or pertaining to fur, animal skins, dressed pelts, etc.: a fur coat; a fur trader.
–verb (used with object) 7. to line, face, or trim, with fur, as a garment.
8. Building Trades. to apply furring to (a wall, ceiling, etc.).
9. to clothe (a person) with fur.
10. to coat with foul or deposited matter.

Hair:

1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
2. an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals.
3. a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc.
4. Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis.
5. cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca.
6. a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair.
—Idioms
7. get in someone's hair, Slang. to annoy or bother someone: Their snobbishness gets in my hair.
8. hair of the dog, Informal. a drink of liquor, supposed to relieve a hangover: Even a hair of the dog didn't help his aching head. Also, hair of the dog that bit one.
9. let one's hair down, Informal. a. to relax; behave informally: He finally let his hair down and actually cracked a joke.
b. to speak candidly or frankly; remove or reduce restraints: He let his hair down and told them about his anxieties.
10. make one's hair stand on end, to strike or fill with horror; terrify: The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end.
11. split hairs, to make unnecessarily fine or petty distinctions: To argue about whether they arrived at two o'clock or at 2:01 is just splitting hairs.
12. tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, or anger: He's tearing his hair over the way he was treated by them. Also, tear one's hair out.
13. to a hair, perfect to the smallest detail; exactly: The reproduction matched the original to a hair.
14. without turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair.

Answer 4

fur- animals
hair- humans

Answer 5

fur's generally a lot thicker

Answer 6

i think princess has it spot on. fur is in two layers. hair is single layered and useless at insulating.

Answer 7

Nothing, biologically speaking.