comb.
A toothed implement:
Meaning & usage
A toothed implement: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
A toothed implement: A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A toothed implement: The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
A toothed implement: A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
A toothed implement: The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
A toothed implement: The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
A toothed implement: A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
A toothed implement: A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
A toothed implement: One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
A toothed implement: A ctene.
A crest: A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A crest: A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
A crest: The top part of a gun’s stock.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
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.
A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
Where this word comes from
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”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb. Cognates Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Danish kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm; also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
Especially of hair or fur, to groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
Where this word comes from
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”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb. Cognates Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Danish kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm; also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
Abbreviation of combination.
Where this word comes from
From combination.
Alternative form of combe.
Alternative form of coomb.
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