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UK
/kˈəʊm/
]
[ US /ˈkoʊm/ ]
[ US /ˈkoʊm/ ]
VERB
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straighten with a comb
comb your hair -
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
comb your hair before dinner
comb the wool -
search thoroughly
They combed the area for the missing child
NOUN
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the act of drawing a comb through hair
his hair needed a comb - ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
How To Use comb In A Sentence
- Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
- Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
- For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
- But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
- Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
- The contours show combinations of mimic phenotypes that are attacked by predators with equal probability.