comb
IPA: kˈoʊm
noun
- A toothed implement:
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- 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.
- 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.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- A crest:
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (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.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (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.
- (Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination. [The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.]
- Alternative form of combe [A valley, often wooded and often with no river]
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb [An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.]
verb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
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Examples of "comb" in Sentences
- He was voted the most combative rider.
- He rumpled her hair but combed it later.
- I am wont to comb my hair with my fingers.
- Cease this combative interrogatory, please.
- He is the combative and the disruptive one.
- The user continues to be hostile and combative.
- The epistle's style is combative, impassioned, and rushed.
- Then get the dog and comb or brush through the rest of the hair.
- The hair is well combed and parted in the middle of the forehead.
- Heckling is done with heckling combs by pulling the flax through the combs.