comb

comb is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
2. noun. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
3. noun. A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
4. noun. The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
5. noun. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
6. noun. A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
7. noun. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
8. noun. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
11. noun. The curling crest of a wave.
12. noun. The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
13. noun. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
14. transitive verb. 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.
15. noun. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
16. noun. Alt. of Combe
17. noun. A dry measure. See Coomb.
18. noun. the act of drawing a comb through hair

    "his hair needed a comb"

    Synonyms: combing

19. noun. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

    Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb

20. noun. ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
21. noun. a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
22. noun. any of several tools for straightening fibers
23. verb. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

    "comb your hair before dinner"

    "comb the wool"

    Synonyms: disentangle

24. verb. search thoroughly

    "They combed the area for the missing child"

    Synonyms: ransack

25. verb. straighten with a comb

    "comb your hair"

Synonyms

combing, cockscomb, coxcomb, disentangle, ransack

Common word forms

combs, combed, comber, combes, combing, combless

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