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comb ocmb cmob mcob omcb mocb cobm ocbm cbom bcom obcm bocm cmbo mcbo cbmo bcmo mbco bmco ombc mobc obmc bomc mboc bmoc

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Definitions and meaning of comb

comb

Etymology 1

From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”). The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōm, IPA^(key): /kəʊm/
• (US) enPR: kōm, IPA^(key): /koʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. A toothed implement:
   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. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
   4. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
   5. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
   6. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
   7. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
   8. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
   9. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
2. A crest:
   1. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
   2. (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
   3. The top part of a gun’s stock.
3. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
4. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
5. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
6. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
7. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
8. (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.
9. (Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.

Synonyms

• (skin on head of birds): cockscomb, crest

Coordinate terms

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle

Coordinate terms

• orling

Derived terms

Related terms

• kemb
• kempt
• unkempt

Translations

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, especially 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.
5. (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From combination.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒmb/

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. (rare) Abbreviation of combination. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: combo

Related terms

• comb. nov. (New Latin naturalized into scientific English)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːm/

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. Alternative form of combe

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːm/

Noun

comb (plural combs)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb

Anagrams

• BMOC

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡somb]
• Hyphenation: comb
• Rhymes: -omb

Noun

comb (plural combok)

1. (anatomy) thigh

Declension

Derived terms

• combocska
• combos
• combú

References

Further reading

• comb in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• comb in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• combe, kombe, camb, kambe, cambe

Etymology

From Old English camb, comb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːm(b)/, /kɔm(b)/
• (mainly Northern ME) IPA^(key): /kam(b)/, /kaːm(b)/

Noun

comb (plural combes)

1. A comb (toothed tool for holding or grooming hair)
2. An instrument similar to a comb used for differing things.
3. A comb or wattle (usually of a rooster)
4. A honeycomb (hexagonal structure of bees)
5. (rare) The top of a mount or rise.
6. (rare) The palm or the analogous part of the foot.

Related terms

• hony comb
• horscomb
• kemben

Descendants

• English: comb
• Scots: camb, came, kame, kaim, kem
• Yola: cowm, khime

References

• “cōmb, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-31.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komb/

Noun

comb m

1. Alternative form of camb