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Definition comb

Etymology 1

From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”) (compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm), from Proto-Indo-European *?ómb?os (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ómb?- (“to pierce, gnaw through”) (compare Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam?bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (z?b?), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek ??????? (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit ???? (jambha)).

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
2. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
4. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
5. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
6. The top part of a gun’s stock.
7. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
8. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
9. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
10. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
11. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
12. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
13. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
14. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
15. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
16. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
17. (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.

Verb

comb (third-person singular simple present combs, present participle combing, simple past and past participle combed)

1. (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
2. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
4. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Etymology 2

From combination.

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. (abbreviation) Combination. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 3

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. Alternative form of combe

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