comb

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A toothed implement:
2. A toothed implement:
3. A toothed implement:
4. A toothed implement:
5. A toothed implement:
6. A toothed implement:
7. A toothed implement:
8. A toothed implement:
9. A toothed implement:
10. A crest:
11. A crest:
12. A crest:
13. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
14. The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
15. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
16. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
17. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
18. 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.
19. (obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.

Verb

1. To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
2. To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
4. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
5. To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.

Concepts

peigne

peigner

crête

coiffer

se peigner

passer au peigne fin

ratisser

démêloir

arête

peinge

écumer

explorer

saccager

fouiller

râteler

râtisser

busc

alvéole

alvéole d’abeille

rayon de miel

rayon de ruche

alvéole d'abeille

ravin

démêler

gronder

racloir

alumelle

huppe

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəʊm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm); also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).