| 单词 | comb |
| 释义 | comb (once / 543 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4v 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. A comb is made of plastic or wood, with separate teeth that untangle strands of hair. When you use one, you comb: "I grabbed the comb so I could comb my cat before the photo shoot." Another way to comb is to rummage or search, the way you comb through your bag to find your car keys. The Old English root is camb, "crest" or "honeycomb," from a Germanic root that means "toothed object." WORD FAMILYcomb: comb-like, combed, comber, combing, combs, uncombable+/combed: uncombed/comber: combers/combing: combings USAGE EXAMPLESTrue to his outsider form, President-elect Trump isn’t just combing through the ranks of the federal government alone to fill these posts. Time(Dec 28, 2016) “Ten Questions For Fake News Detection” helps teachers and students comb through an article to find tell-tale signs of falsehood. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) She is tall, thin, with dark hair combed off her angular face. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1n a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair Hypo|Hyper currycomb a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses fine-tooth comb, fine-toothed comba comb with teeth set close together pocket comb, pocketcomba small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose 2n the act of drawing a comb through hair his hair needed a comb Syn|Hypo|Hyper combing comb-out, teasing the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb hair care, haircare, hairdressing care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair 3n any of several tools for straightening fibers Hypo|Hyper hatchel, heckle a comb for separating flax fibers tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation 4v straighten with a comb comb your hair Hypo|Hyper roach comb (hair) into a roach currycombclean (a horse) with a currycomb hackle, hatchel, hecklecomb with a heckle straighten, straighten out make straight 5v smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb 2comb your hair before dinner comb the wool Syn|Hypo|Hyper comb out, disentangle sleek down, slick, slick down give a smooth and glossy appearance fluff, teaseruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect groom, neaten care for one's external appearance n the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds 3Syn|Hyper cockscomb, coxcomb crest a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal n ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore 4Hyper plate any flat platelike body structure or part v search thoroughly They combed the area for the missing child Syn|Hyper ransack search subject to a search |
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