comb
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Is comb a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A toothed implement:
2. A crest:Examples: "The head-dress of the Horse Grenadiers consists of a peculiar leather helmet with a comb of bear's skin passing over it from ear to ear and a long scarlet […]"; "The armet has usually a low central cabled comb with parallel flutes on either side, occasionally there are three or five combs."; "The combs or elbow pieces are beautifully made, and over the right armpit is […]"broadly
3. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
4. (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.
5. (Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.Cornwallobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.Examples: "I need to comb my hair before we leave the house."especiallytransitive
2. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.transitive
3. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.Examples: "Police combed the field for evidence after the assault."transitive
4. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.intransitive
5. (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.Examples: "The aircraft split up so as to attack from different, preselected bearings, thus confusing the gunners and making it difficult for the ship to comb torpedo tracks."; "Sixteen torpedo bombers divided their attention between the two ships. Repulse combed the torpedo wakes and knocked down two of the attackers."transitive
noun (English)
1. (rare) Abbreviation of combination.Synonyms: comboabbreviationalt-ofrare
noun (English)
1. (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.Examples: "[Regarding a period of agricultural depression] Even on the good land where the farmer hadn't enough capital to look after it and have it properly drained he couldn't hold on. He'd be getting a yield of eight combs of wheat and ten combs of barley per acre. But that wasn't good enough: it gave him no leeway. This is understandable when you recollect the price of wheat at that time."alt-ofalternativedialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary