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[ UK /kˈə‍ʊm/ ]
[ US /ˈkoʊm/ ]
VERB
  1. straighten with a comb
    comb your hair
  2. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
    comb your hair before dinner
    comb the wool
  3. search thoroughly
    They combed the area for the missing child
NOUN
  1. the act of drawing a comb through hair
    his hair needed a comb
  2. ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
  3. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
  4. a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
  5. 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.
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