comb

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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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kəʊm/

Etimologia

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)).