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1. (n.) comb
a toothed strip of hard material, as plastic, bone, or metal, used to untangle, arrange, or hold the hair.
2. comb
any comblike instrument, object, or formation.
3. comb
the fleshy outgrowth on the head of certain roosters.
4. comb
something resembling or suggesting this, as the crest of a wave.
5. comb
a honeycomb.
6. comb
a machine for separating choice cotton or wool fibers from noil.
7. (v.t.) comb
to smooth, arrange, or adorn (the hair) with a comb.
8. comb
to use (something) in the manner of a comb.
9. comb
to remove (anything undesirable) with or as if with a comb.
10. comb
to search everywhere in:
to comb the files for a lost letter.
11. comb
to separate (textile fibers) with a comb.
12. comb
to currycomb.
13. comb
to sweep across; rake:
High winds combed the coast.
14. (v.i.) comb
(of a wave) to roll over or break at the crest.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE comb, camb, c. OS
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| Definition of 'Comb' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) comb
a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
2. (noun) comb, cockscomb, coxcomb
the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
3. (noun) comb
any of several tools for straightening fibers
4. (noun) comb
ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
5. (verb) comb, combing
the act of drawing a comb through hair
"his hair needed a comb"
6. (verb) comb
straighten with a comb
"comb your hair"
7. (verb) comb, ransack
search thoroughly
"They combed the area for the missing child"
8. (verb) comb, comb out, disentangle
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
"comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
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1. (noun) comb
a long flat object used to make hair neat
a comb and brush
2. (verb) comb
to use a comb
to comb your hair
3. comb
to search thoroughly for sth
Police are combing the area for clues.
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| Definition of 'Comb' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Comb
an instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place
2. (noun) Comb
an instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb
3. (noun) Comb
a toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc
4. (noun) Comb
the serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine
5. (noun) Comb
a former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat
6. (noun) Comb
a tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser
7. (noun) Comb
the notched scale of a wire micrometer
8. (noun) Comb
the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb
9. (noun) Comb
the naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red
10. (noun) Comb
one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions
11. (noun) Comb
the curling crest of a wave
12. (noun) Comb
the waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb
13. (noun) Comb
the thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked
14. (noun) Comb
to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves
15. (noun) Comb
alt. of Combe
16. (noun) Comb
a dry measure. See Coomb
17. (verb) Comb
to disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary |
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1. Comb
A bar from which a number of teeth project, like the teeth of a comb. It is used as a collector of electricity from the plate of a frictional or influence electric machine; it is also used in a lightning arrester to define a path of very high resistance but of low self-induction, for the lightning to follow to earth.
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Sense: a toothed instrument for separating or smoothing hair etc.
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 Afrikaans: kam |
 Arabic: مُشط |
 Bulgarian: гребен |
 Brazilian: pente |
 Czech: hřeben |
 German: der Kamm |
 Danish: kam |
 Greek: χτένα |
 Spanish: peine |
 Estonian: kamm |
 Farsi: شانه |
 Finnish: kampa |
 French: peigne |
 Hebrew: מַסרֵק |
 Hindi: कंघा |
 Croatian: češalj |
 Hungarian: fésű |
 Indonesian: sisir |
 Icelandic: kambur, greiða |
 Italian: pettine |
 Japanese: くし |
 Korean: 빗 |
 Lithuanian: šukos |
 Latvian: ķemme; suka |
 Malay: sikat |
 Dutch: kam |
 Norwegian: kam; karde |
 Polish: grzebień |
 Persian: شانه |
 Pashto: ږمونځ |
 Portuguese: pente |
 Romanian: pieptene |
 Russian: расчёска |
 Slovak: hrebeň |
 Slovenian: glavnik |
 Serbian: češalj |
 Swedish: kam |
 Thai: หวี |
 Turkish: tarak |
 Taiwanese: 梳 |
 Ukrainian: гребінь |
 Urdu: کنگھی |
 Vietnamese: cái lược |
 Chinese: 梳 |
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