A comb is a tool for smoothing your hair. You might pull a comb through your curls before you run out the door in the morning to catch your bus.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
Noun
the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb"
Noun
the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
Noun
ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
Noun
a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
Noun
any of several tools for straightening fibers
Noun
a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl
Verb
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
Verb
search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
Verb
straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool"
n.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and
adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
n.
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and
smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
n.
A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool,
flax, hair, etc.
n.
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
n.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for
hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
n.
A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a
lathe; a chaser.
n.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
n.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a
comb.
n.
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.
n.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen
of scorpions.
n.
The curling crest of a wave.
n.
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which
bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
n.
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be
cocked.
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.
n.
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a
white foam, as waves.
n.
Alt. of Combe
n.
A dry measure. See Coomb.
Comb
When the bee doth leave her comb.7.
Comb
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.
Comb
Comb
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb;
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
A dry measure. See
Usage Examples
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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