Definition of Comb

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Definition of Comb

Comb

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.

A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.

A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

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.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.

The curling crest of a wave.

The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.

The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

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.

To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Alt. of Combe

A dry measure. See Coomb.

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Comb Quotations

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
Jonathan Dimbleby

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.
Shane West

But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.
Bridget Hall

Comb Translations

comb in Afrikaans is kam
comb in Dutch is uitkammen, kammen
comb in Finnish is kammata
comb in French is peigne, peignent, peigner, peignons, peignez
comb in German is Kamm
comb in Italian is pettinare, pettine
comb in Norwegian is kjemme
comb in Portuguese is pente
comb in Spanish is peine, peinar
comb in Swedish is kamma, kam

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