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Definition of Comb

1. Verb. Straighten with a comb. "They comb their hair "; "Comb your hair"

2. Noun. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.

3. Verb. Search thoroughly. "The customs agents comb the bags for drugs "; "They combed the area for the missing child"

4. Noun. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.

5. Verb. Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb. "They comb their hair "; "Comb the wool"

6. Noun. Any of several tools for straightening fibers.

7. Noun. Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.

8. Noun. The act of drawing a comb through hair. "His hair needed a comb"

Definition of Comb

1. n. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

2. v. t. 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.

3. v. i. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

4. n. That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

5. n. A dry measure. See Coomb.

Definition of Comb

1. Noun. A toothed implement for grooming the hair. ¹

2. Noun. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. ¹

3. Noun. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. ¹

4. Noun. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. ¹

5. Noun. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. ¹

6. Noun. The top part of a gun’s stock. ¹

7. Noun. the toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. ¹

8. Noun. (music) the main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. ¹

12. Noun. (context: abbreviation) Combination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Comb

1. to arrange or clean with a comb (a toothed instrument) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comb

comart comarts comas comast comasts comate comates comatic comatik comatiks

comatose comatoseness comatulae comatulid comatulids comb (current term) comb-brush comb-footed spider comb-growth test comb-jellies

comb-jelly comb-out comb-over comb-overs comb ceramic comb jellies comb jelly comb out comb over comb plate

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