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English to English noun
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a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair |  | source: wordnet30
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the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | | source: wordnet30
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any of several tools for straightening fibers | | source: wordnet30
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ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | | source: wordnet30
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the act of drawing a comb through hair | | Example: his hair needed a comb
source: wordnet30
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An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. | | source: webster1913
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That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. | | source: webster1913
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A dry measure. See Coomb. | | source: webster1913
verb
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straighten with a comb | | Example: comb your hair
source: wordnet30
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search thoroughly | | Example: They combed the area for the missing child
source: wordnet30
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smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | | Example: comb your hair before dinner
comb the wool
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. | | source: webster1913
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