Meaning

20 senses
  1. A toothed implement:

    A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.

  2. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

  3. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.

    Kamm

  4. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

  5. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

  6. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

  7. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.

  8. A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.

  9. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.

  10. A ctene.

  11. 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

  12. (broadly)A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.

Examples

126 sentences
  1. I have to comb my hair.

    Я мушу зачісатися. — deniko

    ruМне нужно причесаться. — Biga

    deIch muss mir die Haare kämmen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Why do you need a comb if you're bald?

    Навіщо тобі гребінець, якщо ти голомозий? — deniko

    ruЗачем вам нужна расческа, если вы лысый? — HaffA

  3. Tom forgot to comb his hair.

    Том забувся зачісатися. — deniko

    ruТом забыл причесаться. — marafon

    deTom hatte vergessen, sich zu kämmen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Comb your hair before you go out.

    Зачішися, перш ніж йти надвір. — deniko

    deKämme deine Haare, bevor du ausgehst. — Waldelfe

  5. Wash your face and comb your hair.

    Умийся та зачішись. — deniko

    ruУмойся и причеши волосы. — Wezel

    deWasch dir das Gesicht und kämm dir die Haare. — raggione

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
toothed implement for grooming the hair:
Русский
By meaning 1
toothed implement for grooming the hair:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
toothed implement for grooming the hair:

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: combs
Singularcomb
Pluralcombs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
skin on head of birds:cockscombcrest
Close in meaning
  • the act of drawing a comb through hair:combing
  • the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds:cockscombcoxcomb

Word family

50 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • comb his hair
  • comb your hair
  • to comb his

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
comb — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto