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comb
noun
1 comb
A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.
Roget 253:
sharpness
etc.
adj.;
acuity,
acumination†;
spinosity†.
point,
spike,
spine,
spicule [Biol.],
spiculum†;
needle,
hypodermic needle,
tack,
nail,
pin;
prick,
prickle;
spur,
rowel,
barb;
spit,
cusp;
horn,
antler;
snag;
tag thorn,
bristle;
Adam's needle†,
bear grass [U.S.],
tine,
yucca.
nib,
tooth,
tusk;
spoke,
cog,
ratchet.
crag,
crest,
arete [Fr.],
cone peak,
sugar loaf,
pike,
aiguille†;
spire,
pyramid,
steeple.
beard,
chevaux de frise [Fr.],
porcupine,
hedgehog,
brier,
bramble,
thistle;
comb;
awn,
beggar's lice,
bur,
burr,
catchweed†,
cleavers,
clivers†,
goose,
grass,
hairif†,
hariff,
flax comb,
hackle,
hatchel†,
heckle.
wedge;
knife edge,
cutting edge;
blade,
edge tool,
cutlery,
knife,
penknife,
whittle,
razor,
razor blade,
safety razor,
straight razor,
electric razor;
scalpel;
bistoury†,
lancet;
plowshare,
coulter,
colter†;
hatchet,
ax,
pickax,
mattock,
pick,
adze,
gill;
billhook,
cleaver,
cutter;
scythe,
sickle;
scissors,
shears,
pruning shears,
cutters,
wire cutters,
nail clipper,
paper cutter;
sword
etc.
(arms)
727;
bodkin
etc.
(perforator)
262;
belduque†,
bowie knife†,
paring knife;
bushwhacker [U.S.];
drawing knife,
drawing shave;
microtome [Micro.];
chisel,
screwdriver blade;
flint blade;
guillotine.
sharpener,
hone,
strop;
grindstone,
whetstone;
novaculite†;
steel,
emery.
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Dutch: kam, schilderskam
Polish: grzebieĊ
2 comb
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.
synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb.
Dutch: hanenkam, kam
3 comb
Any of several tools for straightening fibers.
4 comb
Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.
5 comb
The act of drawing a comb through hair:
— His hair needed a comb.
synonym: combing.
Dutch: kam, kammen
Polish: czesanie
verb
1 comb
Straighten with a comb.
Roget 972:
punish;
chastise,
chasten;
castigate,
correct,
inflict punishment,
administer correction,
deal retributive justice;
cowhide,
lambaste [Slang].
visit upon,
pay;
pay out,
serve out;
do for;
make short work of,
give a lesson to,
serve one right,
make an example of;
have a rod in pickle for;
give it one.
strike
etc.
276;
deal a blow to,
administer the lash,
smite;
slap,
slap the face;
smack,
cuff,
box the ears,
spank,
thwack,
thump,
beat,
lay on,
swinge†,
buffet;
thresh,
thrash,
pummel,
drub,
leather,
trounce,
sandbag,
baste,
belabor;
lace,
lace one's jacket;
dress,
dress down,
give a dressing,
trim,
warm,
wipe,
tund†,
cob,
bang,
strap,
comb,
lash,
lick,
larrup,
wallop,
whop,
flog,
scourge,
whip,
birch,
cane,
give the stick,
switch,
flagellate,
horsewhip,
bastinado,
towel,
rub down with an oaken towel,
rib roast,
dust one's jacket,
fustigate†,
pitch into,
lay about one,
beat black and blue;
beat to a mummy,
beat to a jelly;
give a black eye.
tar and feather;
pelt,
stone,
lapidate†;
masthead,
keelhaul.
execute;
bring to the block,
bring to the gallows;
behead,
decapitate,
guillotine;
decollate;
hang,
turn off,
gibbet,
bowstring,
hang draw and quarter;
shoot;
decimate;
burn;
break on the wheel,
crucify;
empale†,
impale;
flay;
lynch;
electrocute;
gas,
send to the gas chamber.
torture;
put on,
put to the rack;
picket.
banish,
exile,
transport,
expel,
ostracize;
rusticate;
drum out;
dismiss,
disbar,
disbench†;
strike off the roll,
unfrock;
post.
suffer,
suffer for,
suffer punishment;
be flogged.
be executed,
suffer the ultimate penalty;
be hanged
&c.;
come to the gallows,
mount the gallows,
swing [Coll.],
twist in the wind,
dance upon nothing,
die in one's shoes;
be rightly served;
be electrocuted,
fry [Coll.],
ride the lightning [Coll.];
face the firing squad.
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Roget 652:
be clean,
render clean
etc.
adj.;
clean,
cleanse;
mundify†,
rinse,
wring,
flush,
full,
wipe,
mop,
sponge,
scour,
swab,
scrub,
brush up.
wash,
lave,
launder,
buck;
absterge†,
deterge†;
decrassify†;
clear,
purify;
depurate†,
despumate†,
defecate;
purge,
expurgate,
elutriate [Chem],
lixiviate†,
edulcorate†,
clarify,
refine,
rack;
filter,
filtrate;
drain,
strain.
disinfect,
fumigate,
ventilate,
deodorize;
whitewash;
castrate,
emasculate.
sift,
winnow,
pick,
weed,
comb,
rake,
brush,
sweep.
rout out,
clear out,
sweep out
&c.;
make a clean sweep of.
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2 comb
Search thoroughly:
— They combed the area for the missing child.
synonym: ransack.
Dutch: plunderen
3 comb
Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb:
— Comb your hair before dinner.
— Comb the wool.
synonyms: comb out, disentangle.
Dutch: kammen, uitkammen
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