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comb
I. \ˈkōm\ noun
(plural combs \-mz\)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English camb; akin to Old High German kamb, Old Norse kambr comb, Greek gomphos tooth, peg, Sanskrit jambha molar, fang
1.
a. : an instrument consisting of a thin strip (as of plastic, metal, or bone) with a row of teeth on one or both edges or sides that is used for adjusting, cleaning, or confining the hair or for adornment
b. : any of several toothed devices used in handling or ordering textile fibers:
(1) : a toothed instrument for separating, ordering, and cleansing fibers (as of wool, flax, or hair); also : the machine of which it is the basic part
(2) : the serrated vibratory device used to strip fiber from the doffer of a carding machine
(3) : a reed of a loom and especially of a hand loom
c. : a toothed instrument for currying hairy animals or cleansing and smoothing their coats : currycomb
d. : the collector of an electrostatic machine
e.
(1) : a toothed instrument used to form patterns on a painted surface that typically resemble grained wood or marbled paper
(2) : a pattern so formed
f. : a tool having teeth similar to those on a saw and used in finishing stone
2. : the fleshy crest or caruncle on the head of the domestic fowl and certain other gallinaceous birds usually best developed in the male — see pea comb, rose comb, single comb, strawberry comb
3. : something resembling or suggesting the comb of a cock: as
a. : the crest of a helmet; especially : the upright blade on a morion
b. dialect : the crest or ridge of a mountain or hill
c. : the ridge of a roof
d. : a ridge or crest of hair
e. : the upper edge of the buttstock of a shoulder firearm against which the firer's cheek rests during firing
f. : the curling crest of a wave
g. : a hook on which bacon slabs are hung for smoking
4. : a structure resembling a comb (sense 1a): as
a. : the pecten of a scorpion
b. : the pecten of a bird's eye
c. : one of the ciliated swimming plates of a ctenophore
d. : strigil 2
e. : ctenidium 2
5.
a. : honeycomb; also : one of the somewhat similar masses of cells built by social wasps
b. : an aggregate of crystals resembling a honeycomb that have grown outward from the walls of a vein or cavity so that their closely set points or ends project
II. verb
(combed \-md\ ; combed \“\ ; combing \-miŋ\ ; combs \-mz\)
Etymology: Middle English comben, from comb, n.
transitive verb
1. : to draw a comb through : disentangle with or as if with a comb:
a. : to lay straight : dress, arrange
< comb one's hair >
b. : to cleanse, disentangle, and collect together (animal or vegetable fibers) by the use of a comb preparatory to spinning so that only the longer fibers are collected, the short staple being combed away — compare card I 1
c. : to dress or finish (stone) with a comb
2. : thrash, beat
3.
a. : rake
< comb the grass >
b. : to afflict or assault as if by raking: as
(1) : to pass over with violent force
< the city was combed by rain and high winds >
(2) : flatten, erode
< huge waves combing down the dunes >
(3) : to shell systematically
< combing the enemy's position with our guns >
4.
a. : to remove or eliminate with or as if with a comb
< comb out snarls >
< comb out head lice >
< comb subversives out of the organization >
: treat with or as if with a comb in order to remove anything undesirable — usually used with out
< comb out a staff in search of dishonest persons >
b. : separate, sort
< combing out of the tangle the right elements >
< comb army recruits from industries >
5.
a. : to search or examine systematically and thoroughly omitting or ignoring no part or detail
< comb all the evidence >
< comb the whole trial record for reasons for appeal >
< comb the woodland for traces of the lost children >
< police combing the city for the killer >
b. : to seek out and collect from — used especially of one that gathers flotsam cast up by the sea
< added to his income by combing the little beach beyond the point >
6. : to use in the manner of a comb
< combing his fingers through his long red beard >
intransitive verb
1. of a wave or its crest : to roll over : break into foam
2. : to flow or come over like a combing wave
Synonyms: see seek
III. \ˈküm, ˈkōm\
variant of combe
IV. abbreviation
1. combination; combined; combining
2. combustion |