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Meaning comb meaning

What does comb mean?
Definitions in simple English

comb Noun

— A person moves a comb through their hair many times to make their hair look nice. Joe always had a comb in his pocket.

comb Verb

— To move a comb through hair I washed and combed my hair. — To look carefully for something The police combed the forest for the person but didn't find him.

comb

— noun a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair — noun the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds — verb smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb comb your hair before dinner comb the wool — verb search thoroughly They combed the area for the missing child — verb straighten with a comb comb your hair — noun ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore — noun (= combing) the act of drawing a comb through hair his hair needed a comb — noun any of several tools for straightening fibers

Synonyms comb synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as comb?

comb English » English

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Topics comb topics

What do people use comb to talk about?
Daily life Adornment Care for hair

Comb hair
Daily life Adornment

Jewelry
Physical actions Arrange Tie

Tangle

Conjugation comb conjugation

How do you conjugate comb?

comb · verb

Examples comb examples

How do I use comb in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom needs to comb his hair.
Tom should comb his hair.
It's a comb.
Comb your hair before you go out.
This is a wooden comb.
I have a wooden comb.
I have to comb my hair.
I brush my teeth; I comb my hair.
I need a mirror to comb my hair.
Tom seldom bothers to comb his hair.
Don't recommend a bald guy to buy a comb.
She knows how to comb her hair.
You forgot to comb your hair, Tom.
Where is my comb?
Where's my comb?
I like to comb my hair with this comb.
Why do you need a comb if you're bald?
Did you comb your hair?
Wash your face and comb your hair.

Movie subtitles

Millions are alive right now, and that fact alone tells scientists a lot as they comb the cosmos for alien life.
I'm gonna take these and apply a fine-tooth comb with a glass of Merlot.
I'll just look in your bag to see if you brought a comb.
May I use your comb?
Now, we shall comb the country for 20 miles round.
You should never comb it.
Give me that comb.
Go and wash your face and hands, and comb your hair. so that I needn't be ashamed of you in front of a guest.
That's how I comb it.
I went over the apartment with a fine-tooth comb.
We'll deploy our forces and comb the town. Won't we, Milly?
And here is a fine comb.
Come on. We'll comb the joint.
And the comb - do you remember?
The escarpment's a bit too big to comb end to end for your cousin and her white ape friend.
With a fine-toothed comb.
Bottle tops, an old comb.
A comb?
A comb!
The comb once belonged here.
You're losing your comb, Elisabeth. - Oh?
Mummy, where is your little comb?
Mummy's comb is missing.
Forget the silly comb, Sweetie.
In Lalah-Poor's room, I found a comb just like this one.
It's my comb.
We'll deploy our forces and comb the town.
Comb your hair and take off your coat.
What about the comb?
The comb.
Will you just give me five minutes to comb my hair and put on a tie?
I frankly don't want to have a sweet mother-daughter chat with you while you comb me out.
Would you like to comb your hair?
Well, you know my diamond comb, the one I always wear?
They'll comb the town, close every exit.
You go and wash your face, and comb your hair pretty.
Why don't you comb your hair?

News and current affairs

He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb-over hairdo.
Physicists searching for a few Higgs-like needles in a mind-bogglingly large haystack must comb their data for anomalies in the debris that cannot be accounted for by known processes.

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