Meaning of 'comb' (Webster Dictionary)
- An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and
adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
- An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and
smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
- A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool,
flax, hair, etc.
- The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for
hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
- A tool with teeth, 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.
- 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.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen
of scorpions.
- The curling crest of a wave.
- The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which
bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
- The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be
cocked.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a
white foam, as waves.
- Alt. of Combe
- A dry measure. See Coomb.
- 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.
Meaning of 'comb' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
Meaning (2):
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
Example in sentence:- comb the wool;
- comb your hair before dinner
Meaning (3):
- straighten with a comb
Meaning (4):
- search thoroughly
Example in sentence:- They combed the area for the missing child
Definition
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