comb
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
comb (plural combs)
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- German: Kamm
comb (combs, present participle combing; past and past participle combed)
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
- I need to comb my hair before we leave the house
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- Police combed the field for evidence after the assault
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- French: peigner, coiffer
- German: kämmen
- Italian: pettinare
- Portuguese: pentear
- Russian: причёсывать
- Spanish: peinar, peinarse
- French: passer au peigne fin, ratisser
- German: durchkämmen
- Portuguese: passar um pente-fino
- Russian: прочёсывать
- Spanish: peinar
- (British) IPA: /kɒmb/
comb (plural combs)
- (abbreviation) Combination.
- IPA: /kuːm/
comb (plural combs)
- Alternative form of combe
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