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comb

/kəʊm/

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A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
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.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
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.

(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
"I need to comb my hair before we leave the house"
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.