comb

Significado (inglés)

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.

Conceptos

comb

crest

brush

honeycomb

reed

ridge

ransack

rummage

curry

comb out

untangle

card

currycomb

disentangle

hackle

combing

coxcomb

rake

hairbrush

search

hatchel

cockscomb

hunt

combination

beehive

plait

dress

tease

scour

abuse

scold

coping

edge

top

drag

draw a comb through

tooth-comb

haircomb

rub down

horse comb

redd

combined

hair-brush

hair-comb

honey-comb

heddle

bobbin

shuttle

canvass

ferret

investigate

look round

research

beeswax

brushing

scrub

nidus vespa

horn

heckle

broom

brow

mane

push broom

scrubber

coif

coiffe

coiffure

do

comb-plate

ctene

teaser

take

teasel

search thoroughly

strain

bike

hive

brood comb

curse

rebuke

reprove

caruncle

gully

ravine

be on at

ban

bawl out

be after

be at

be down on

berate

blast

blow

blow up

bring up

bullyrag

bum-rap

call down

call over the coals

cant

chastise

chide

clobber

comb down

come down on

darn

drub

get after

get at

give somebody hell

give someone hell

growl

haze

inveigh

inveigh against

jump on

lay someone out

let into

mag

miscall

objurgate

rail

rail against

revile

rip into

row

scold for

scorch

skin

slang

slangwhang

strafe

swear

swear at

take apart

tee off

throw mud at

throw up

whip

yaff

blast on someone

chew somebody's ass out

get on somebody's ass

lay out someone

sling mud at

сall names

go off at smb.

give fits

bust chops

give somebody shit

trash someone

cut a beef

utter imprecations

tell someone Off

claw away

deal it out

go crook

ass-kick

let go with

give someone a tongue-lashing

ballock somebody

bollock somebody

give curry

ride a pony

slap someone's wrist

couloir

scraper

cap

disentangles

laths

scratch

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kəʊm/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

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)).