Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
- 2noun
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
- 3noun
A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
- 4noun
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- 5noun
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
- 6noun
A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- 7noun
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- 8noun
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
- 11noun
The curling crest of a wave.
- 12noun
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
- 13noun
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
- 14transitive 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.
- 15noun
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- 16noun
Alt. of Combe
- 17noun
A dry measure. See Coomb.
- 18noun
the act of drawing a comb through hair
"his hair needed a comb"
Synonyms
- 19noun
the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- 20noun
ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- 21noun
a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- 22noun
any of several tools for straightening fibers
- 23verb
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
"comb your hair before dinner"
"comb the wool"
Synonyms
- 24verb
search thoroughly
"They combed the area for the missing child"
Synonyms
- 25verb
straighten with a comb
"comb your hair"
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