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CombComb Comb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Combed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Combing.]
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.
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.
--Shak. Comb
Comb Comb (?; 110), n. [AS. camb; akin to Sw., Dan., & D. kam,
Icel. kambr, G. kamm, Gr. ? a grinder tooth, Skr. jambha
tooth.]
1. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing,
and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
2. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and
smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
3. (Manuf. & Mech.)
(a) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing
wool, flax, hair, etc.
(b) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding
machine.
(c) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat
manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
(d) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in
a lathe; a chaser.
(e) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
(f) The collector of an electrical machine, usually
resembling a comb.
CombComb Comb, v. i. [See Comb, n., 5.] (Naut.)
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a
white foam, as waves. CombComb Comb, Combe Combe (? or ?), n. [AS. comb, prob. of
Celtic origin; cf. W. cwm a dale, valley.]
That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its
continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that
issues into it. [Written also coombe.] --Buckland.
A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. --Southey. CombComb Comb, n.
A dry measure. See Coomb. combCoomb Coomb, n. [AS. cumb a liquid measure, perh. from LL.
cumba boat, tomb of stone, fr. Gr. ? hollow of a vessel, cup,
boat, but cf. G. kumpf bowl.]
A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written
also comb.]
Meaning of comb from wikipedia
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- Sean Love
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Missouri Comb,
plural form
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circular combing. The
Noble comb is an
example of
circular combing. The
French comb is an
example of
linear combing.[citation needed] The
circular combs used...
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Comb binding (sometimes
referred to as "cerlox" or "surelox" binding) is one of many ways to bind
pages together into a book. This
method uses
round plastic...
- A
comb is a
fleshy growth or
crest on the top of the head of some
gallinaceous birds, such as
domestic chickens. The
alternative name ****scomb (with several...
- In
signal processing, a
comb filter is a
filter implemented by
adding a dela****
version of a
signal to itself,
causing constructive and
destructive interference...
- Look up
comb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
comb is a
toothed device used for
straightening and
cleaning hair or fibers.
Comb or
COMB may also refer...
- In b****eeping, in a
Langstroth hive, burr
comb, also
known as
brace comb and
bridge comb, are
portions of
honeycomb built by the bees in
other places than...
- A
frequency comb or
spectral comb is a
spectrum made of
discrete and
regularly spaced spectral lines. In optics, a
frequency comb can be
generated by...
