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combs, plural;
  1. Untangle or arrange (the hair) by drawing a comb through it
    • - neatly combed hair
  2. Remove something from the hair by drawing a comb through it
    • - she combed the burrs out of the dog's coat
  3. Curry (a horse)

  4. Prepare (wool, flax, or cotton) for manufacture with a comb

  5. Treat (a fabric) in such a way
    • - the socks are made of soft combed cotton
  6. Search carefully and systematically
    • - police combed the area for the murder weapon
    • - his mother combed through the cardboard boxes
  1. A strip of plastic, metal, or wood with a row of narrow teeth, used for untangling or arranging the hair

  2. An instance of untangling or arranging the hair with such a device
    • - she gave her hair a comb
  3. A short curved device of this type, worn by women to hold hair in place or as an ornament

  4. Something resembling a comb in function or structure, in particular

  5. A device for removing loose hair from an animal, esp. a dog or cat

  6. A device for separating and dressing textile fibers

  7. A row of brass points for collecting the electricity in an electrostatic generator

  8. The red fleshy crest on the head of a domestic fowl, esp. a rooster

  1. straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"
  2. a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
  4. search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
  5. any of several tools for straightening fibers
  6. ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
  8. Combing is a method for preparing fibre for spinning by use of combs. The combs used have long metal teeth, and only barely resemble the comb used on hair. ...
  9. (Combs (surname)) Sports: *Earle Combs (1899-1976), American center fielder and Baseball Hall of Fame member *Merl Combs (1919-1981), a shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1947-1952 *Pat Combs (born 1966), a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher from 1989-1992
  10. A toothed implement for grooming the hair; A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers; A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest; A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb; An old English measure of corn ...
  11. (Combed) Cotton treatment (combing) that reduces the number of uneven, short fibers in the fabric
  12. (Combed) The visible attribute on the exterior surface of a vessel that results from dragging a toothed implement down the plastic surface of the exterior rim surface, producing a band of evenly spaced striations. Combed is usually considered an attribute of surface treatment. ...
  14. (combed) treated or modified by the application of a toothed instrument of wood, bone, metal, etc. A comb may be used to smooth and/or decorate pottery or to arrange and disentangle hair.
  15. A combed yarn has longer fibers, in parallel position, and more uniformity.
  18. (Combing) A step that is subsequent to carding in worsted spinning which separates the long, choice desirable fibers from the neps and shorter stock (noils), removes almost all foreign matter and arranges fibers in parallel order forming a sliver. ...
  19. (Combing) Process that organizes carded wool fibers in a parallel arrangement by pulling them through spiked blocks or combs. This process prepares wool for spinning.
  20. (Combing) A process for removing all short fibers (those less than 1-1/8") and impurities from cotton that has been carded. Combed yarn is superior to carded yarn in that it is more compact and has fewer projecting fibers. The finest cottons are made from combed yarns. ...
  21. (Combing) An industrial yarn preparation process where fibers are combed to make them parallel in the sliver and short fibers and impure foreign elements are taken out.
  22. (Combing) Process in which a rake-like tool is drawn across molten glass to create artistic patterns.
  23. (Combing) Process of preparing wool fibers for spinning by sorting them in the same direction.
  24. (Combing) A paint effect using a decorators comb is dragged across a glaze to produce a series of lines.