comb
A toothed implementA toothed implement: A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
» I have to comb my hair.
Ich muss mir die Haare kämmen.
Мне нужно причесаться.
Я мушу зачісатися.
Я маю зачісатися.
Я повинен зачісатися.
Я повинна зачісатися.
Мені потрібно зачісатися.
Meaning
20 sensesA toothed implement:
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.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
Kamm
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.
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.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
A ctene.
A crest:
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
Kamm
гре́беньgrébenʹ
the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
(broadly)A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
Examples
126 sentencesI have to comb my hair.
Я мушу зачісатися.
ruМне нужно причесаться.
deIch muss mir die Haare kämmen.
Why do you need a comb if you're bald?
Навіщо тобі гребінець, якщо ти голомозий?
ruЗачем вам нужна расческа, если вы лысый?
Tom forgot to comb his hair.
Том забувся зачісатися.
ruТом забыл причесаться.
deTom hatte vergessen, sich zu kämmen.
Comb your hair before you go out.
Зачішися, перш ніж йти надвір.
deKämme deine Haare, bevor du ausgehst.
Wash your face and comb your hair.
Умийся та зачішись.
ruУмойся и причеши волосы.
deWasch dir das Gesicht und kämm dir die Haare.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb,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.
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Forms
plural: combsSynonyms
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50 related wordsCollocations
3 patterns- comb his hair
- comb your hair
- to comb his