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comb 音标拼音: [k'om] n. 头梳,鸡冠
vt. 梳头发,梳毛
vi. (浪)涌起 头梳,鸡冠梳头发,梳毛(浪)涌起 comb梳 comb n 1: a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair 2: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [ synonym: { comb}, { cockscomb}, { coxcomb}] 3: any of several tools for straightening fibers 4: ciliated comb- like swimming plate of a ctenophore 5: the act of drawing a comb through hair; " his hair needed a comb" [ synonym: { comb}, { combing}] v 1: straighten with a comb; " comb your hair" 2: search thoroughly; " They combed the area for the missing child" [ synonym: { comb}, { ransack}] 3: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; " comb your hair before dinner"; " comb the wool" [ synonym: { comb}, { comb out}, { disentangle}] Comb \ Comb\ ( k[= o] m; 110), n. [ AS. camb; akin to Sw., Dan., & D. kam, Icel. kambr, G. kamm, Gr. ? a grinder tooth, Skr. jambha tooth.] 1. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Manuf. & Mech.) ( a) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. ( b) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. ( c) A former, commonly cone- shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. ( d) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. ( e) The notched scale of a wire micrometer. ( f) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Zool.) ( a) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. ( b) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The curling crest of a wave. [ 1913 Webster] 6. The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. " A comb of honey." -- Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster] When the bee doth leave her comb. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 7. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. [ 1913 Webster]
Comb \ Comb\, n. A dry measure. See { Coomb}. [ 1913 Webster]
Comb \ Comb\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Combed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Combing}.] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Comb \ Comb\, v. i. [ See { Comb}, n., 5.] ( Naut.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. [ 1913 Webster] Comb
Comb \ Comb\, Combe \ Combe\ (? or ?), n. [ AS. comb, prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwm a dale, valley.] That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. [ Written also { coombe}.] -- Buckland. [ 1913 Webster] A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. -- Southey. [ 1913 Webster]
Coomb \ Coomb\, n. [ AS. cumb a liquid measure, perh. from LL. cumba boat, tomb of stone, fr. Gr. ? hollow of a vessel, cup, boat, but cf. G. kumpf bowl.] A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [ Written also { comb}.] [ 1913 Webster] Coomb50 Moby Thesaurus words for " comb": be poised, beat, billow, break, card, crash, curry, dash, ebb and flow, examine, forage, grub, hackle, hatchel, heave, heckle, inspect, investigate, lift, look all over, look everywhere, peak, popple, probe, rake, ransack, rifle, rise, rise and fall, roll, rummage, scend, scour, scrutinize, search, search high heaven, send, separate, shake, shake down, sift, smash, surge, swell, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down, undulate, wave, winnow |
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