comb
A small tool with teeth that you use to make your hair neat.
A small, usually flat tool with a row of teeth, used to arrange, clean, or style hair.
To move a comb through hair to make it neat or smooth.
To use a comb to make hair neat, remove tangles, or create a particular style.
To look through a place or many things very carefully to find something.
To search something extremely carefully and in detail, often over an area or through a large amount of information.
The soft, red part on top of a chicken’s head that looks like a crown.
The soft, often red, fleshy crest on top of the head of a chicken, rooster, or similar bird.
The wax wall with many small rooms that bees make in a hive to keep honey and baby bees.
The wax structure made of many connected cells that bees build inside a hive to store honey, pollen, and brood.
A part of a machine with many teeth that helps to clean or order fibers or other long, thin things.
A component of a machine that has a row of teeth and is used to separate, clean, or arrange fibers or other materials.
- Base: comb
- Plural: combs
- Base: comb
- 3rd Person Singular: combs
- Present Participle: combing
- Past: combed
comb back
1style hair by combing it back
To make a hairstyle by moving a comb so the hair goes back away from the face.
- He combed back his hair before the interview.
- Her hair was combed back and held with a clip.
comb out
1remove tangles using a comb
To use a comb to take out knots, tangles, or loose hair or fibers.
- She used conditioner to help comb out the knots in her hair.
- The stylist carefully combed out the curls before cutting.
comb over
1cover bald spot with hair
To style your hair by moving longer hair over a part of your head where there is little or no hair.
- He tried to comb over his thinning hair.
- The stylist advised him not to comb over the bald patch.
comb through
1search something very carefully
To look very carefully through many things, details, or information to find what you want.
- Investigators combed through hundreds of pages of financial records.
- I spent the afternoon combing through old photos for our presentation.
with a fine-tooth comb
1very closely and carefully
In a very careful and detailed way, so that you do not miss anything.
- Lawyers went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb.
- The report was checked with a fine-tooth comb before publication.