Overview of noun comb

The noun comb has 5 senses

• comb -- (a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair)


• comb, cockscomb, coxcomb -- (the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds)


• comb -- (any of several tools for straightening fibers)


• comb -- (ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore)


• comb, combing -- (the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb")

Overview of verb comb

The verb comb has 3 senses

• comb -- (straighten with a comb; "comb your hair")


• comb, ransack -- (search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child")


• comb, comb out, disentangle -- (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool")