comb (k m)n.1. a. A thin toothed strip, as of plastic, used to smooth, arrange, or fasten the hair. b. An implement, such as a card for dressing and cleansing wool or other fiber, that resembles a hair comb in shape or use. c. A currycomb. 2. a. The fleshy crest or ridge that grows on the crown of the head of domestic fowl and other birds and is most prominent in the male. b. Something suggesting a fowl's comb in appearance or position. 3. A honeycomb. v. combed, comb·ing, combs v.tr.1. a. To move a comb through (the hair) so as to arrange or groom: combed her hair with a comb; combed his hair with his fingers. b. To move though or pass across with a raking action: The wind combed the wheatfields. 2. To card (wool or other fiber). 3. To search thoroughly; look through: combed the dresser drawers for a lost bracelet. 4. To eliminate with or as with a comb: combed the snarls out of his hair. v.intr.1. To roll and break. Used of waves. 2. To make a thorough search: combed through the file for the contract.
[Middle English, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.] |
comb Noun 1. a toothed instrument for disentangling or arranging hair 2. a tool or machine that cleans and straightens wool or cotton 3. a fleshy serrated crest on the head of a domestic fowl 4. a honeycomb Verb 1. to use a comb on 2. to search with great care: police combed the streets for the missing girl [Old English camb]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | comb - a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges haircurrycomb - a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal | | 2. | comb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birdscrest - a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | | 3. | comb - any of several tools for straightening fiberstool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal | | 4. | comb - ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophorecomb jelly, ctenophore - biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb plate - any flat platelike body structure or part | | 5. | comb - the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" | | Verb | 1. | comb - straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"roach - comb (hair) into a roach | | 2. | comb - search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" | | 3. | comb - smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"fluff, tease - ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect neaten, groom - care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed" |
comb verb 2. search, hunt through, sweep, rake, sift, scour, rummage, ransack, forage, fossick Austral., N.Z. go through with a fine-tooth comb
Translations comb [kəum] n → peine m;
comb [kəum] n → peigne m
comb [kəum] n → Kamm m (area) → durchkämmen
comb [kəum] n → pettine m
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