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Meaning of comb in English
Pronunciation
/koʊm/
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Verb
comb
Definitions
1.
straighten with a comb
Examples
« comb your hair »
« comb the wool »
2.
search thoroughly
Examples
« They combed the area for the missing child »
3.
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
Examples
« comb your hair before dinner »
« comb the wool »
Noun
comb
Etymology
Old English camb, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kam and German Kamm
Definitions
1.
a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge
Examples
« disentangles or arranges hair »
2.
the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
3.
a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl
4.
any of several tools for straightening fibers
5.
ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
6.
the act of drawing a comb through hair
Examples
« his hair needed a comb »