Comb

Definition: Comb

Comb

Noun

1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.

2. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.

3. A fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl.

4. Any of several tools for straightening fibers.

5. Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.

6. The act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb".

Verb

1. Straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool".

2. Search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child".

3. Of hair.

Date "comb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	A device that supports the access arms on a disk drive. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A fleshy crest on the head of the domestic ford and other gallinaceous birds. Source: European Union. (references)
Geography	Small, deep valley running down to the sea; also, a bowl-shaped, generally unwatered valley or hollow on the flank of a hill, especially a dry, closed-in valley on the chalk downs of southern England. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	The device which keeps the warp yarns separated, helps to determine cloth width and acts as a beater. Source: European Union. (references)
	After scutching the fibres are usually combed or hackled by drawing them through sets of pins. Source: European Union. (references)
	The coarse steel comb used to remove leaves, seeds, and other foreign substances from flax straw. Source: European Union. (references)
	Figure 7. 2 Fiber meter and blending feeder. . . --. . Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Comb A crabtree comb. A cudgel applied to the head. To smooth your hair with a crabtree comb, is to give the head a knock with a stick. Reynard's wonderful comb. This comb existed only in the brain of Master Fox. He said it was made of the Panthera's bone, the perfume of which was so fragrant that no one could resist following it; and the wearer of the comb was always cheerful and merry. (Reynard the Fox, chap. ii.) To comb one's head. To humiliate a person, or to give him a "set down." "I'll carry you with me to my country box, and keep you out of harm's way, till I find you a wife who will comb your head for you."- Bulwer-Lytton: What will he do with it? iv. 16. To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool (Taming of the Shrew, i. 1) is to beat you about the head with a stool. Many stools, such as those used by milkmaids, are still made with three legs; and these handy weapons seem to have been used at one time pretty freely, especially by angry women. To cut one's comb. To take down a person's conceit. In allusion to the practice of cutting the combs of capons. To set up one's comb is to be cockish and vainglorious. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	In a fissure that has been filled by successive deposits of minerals on the walls, the place where two sets of layers thus deposited approach most nearly or meet, closing the fissure and exhibiting either a drusy centralcavity or an interlocking of crystals. See also:comb texture. (references)
Occupations	Precut undipped pasteboard resembling a hair comb, used for book matches. (references)
Slang in 1811	COMB. To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Transportation	As for all passenger control the customs inspection position should be arranged as a < --". Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A comb is a device made of solid material, generally flat, always toothed, used for staightening and cleaning hair or other fibers.

The etymology of the English word is extremely ancient, going straight back to Indo-European roots meaning "tooth", "toothed", "to bite", and found in ancient Greek and Sanskrit.

Combs are among the older tools known to mankind, having been found in very refined forms already in settlements dating back to 5000 years ago in Persia - possibly at the height of the first major Indo-European migrations.

It can be argued that combs do not have only value as cosmetic implements. Combs may have given users an evolutionary advantage by helping in the endless fight against parasites. In fact, Indo-European or otherwise, there are no known traditional civilizations that ignore the use of combs, even those whose members have hair that is quite hard to comb.

The term is applied in English also to

the fleshy crest atop the head of many species of birds (hens et al.)
the ridge or reinforcement in the same position on steel helmets
a periodic, sharp spike or dip pattern in a signal
the thick, semi-flexible water-filtering structures used in filter-feeding by baleen whales, which are if anything closer to what one would call "brushes".

Alternative uses of combs include:

Keeping long hair in place.
Keeping a kippa in place.
Separating cotton fibers from seeds and other debris. The cottin gin, a mechanized version of the comb, is one of the machines that ushered the Industrial revolution.
Making music, by dramatically increasing the high-frequency harmonic content of the hum produced by the human voice box, and modulating the resulting spread sound spectrum by changing the resonanting frequency of the oral cavity. This is accomplished by stringing a plant's leaf or a piece of paper in one side of the comb and humming with cropped lips on the opposite side. This was the inspiration for the kazoo.
Annoying people by making monotonous noises plinging repetitively at comb teeth of identical length and harmonic qualities. Boring as this may seem, it was the inspiration for a kind of comb with teeth of varying length, which eventually evolved in the carrillon, or music box.

Combs are also a favorite spot for police investigators to collect hair and dandruff samples that can be used in ascertaining dead or living people's identities, as well as their state of health, toxicological profiles, and so forth.

Sharing combs is a common source of parasitic infections, as one user can leave a comb with plenty of eggs or even live parasites, facilitating the transmission of lice, fleas, crabs, mites, fungi, and other undesirables. While these parasitic infestations can be just mighily annoying per se, they can also act as a conduit for more serious illnesses, such as the Black Plague, that killed one third of all Europeans in the 14th century.

There are no known stricly religious meanings for the use of combs, although these tools are mentioned in various religious scriptures.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
COMB	English	Center of Marine Biotechnology	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Comb

Synonyms: cockscomb (n), combing (n), coxcomb (n), comb out (v), disentangle (v), ransack (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cleanness	Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.
Punishment	Strike; 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.
Sharpness	Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Either that, or he plans to grab his comb over and Mary Poppins his way down past the 80th floor (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Right now, I'm eating scrambled eggs, with a comb, from a shoe (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) I could look at you if I wanted to, but frankly, I've grown tired of counting the comb marks in your hair (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Round 'em up, ride 'em in, get 'em up, get 'em dressed, comb their hair, brush their teeth, Rawhide (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) If you have lovely hair you must want a comb in there (Snow White; writing credit: Michael Berz; Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm)
Lyrics	The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) No comb had touched your hair (Hold My Hand; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won't (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)
Clever	Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. (references; author: Belgian Proverb)
Movie/TV Titles	The Shell Comb Industry (1914)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Country Kitchen Collection (Plastic Comb Binding) (reference) Never Offer Your Comb to a Bald Man: How to get what you want by giving others what they need! (reference) Scissors and Comb Haircutting: A Cut-By-Cut Guide for Home Haircutters (reference) The Boy Who Wouldn't Comb His Hair (reference) The Ivory Comb (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	All Out Comb Out Video (reference) Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 58: Rooster the Golden Comb, Tale of a Fisherman and Golden Fish, One was Caught Who Bites, Goat Which Could Count until 10 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Blowout Comb (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Compucable Field Service Kit W/Case 57PC W/Pliers Cutters Hex & Comb Wrench (reference) Ibico IbiMaster 300 Multifunctional Plastic Comb Binding System (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Girls Pewter Teddy Bear Comb & Brush Set (reference) Sable SA850C Professional 24K Gold Plated Pressing Comb (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The important identifying characteristics of a Wyeomyia mosquito larva are that it lacks the median ventral brush and it has comb scales. Credit: CDC.		The anal segment of Coquillettidia does not bear prominent hair tufts on the ventral aspect of the saddle, although one or two small hairs may be present posteriorly, with 8 or more comb scales on the abdominal segment VIII in this genus. Credit: CDC.
	A prominent patch of scales, known as the comb scales, occurs on each side of the eighth abdominal segment in most genera. Credit: CDC.		Toxorhynchites larvae are distinguished readily by the presence of the lateral plate bearing spinulose hairs. Note that comb scales are not present on its eigth terminal segment. Credit: CDC.
	The eighth terminal segment of the Orthopodomyia larva possesses comb scales, and differs from the Wyeomyia by its closely set tufts of hairs on the ventral side of the tenth abdominal segment, forming the median ventral brush. Credit: CDC.		Wyeomyia larvae have comb scales like the Orthopodomyia larvae, but the median ventral brush is lacking. Members of this genus breed in water held by the leaves of plants. Credit: CDC.
	Ctenophore or comb jellyfish feeding. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		CAMP BUTMIR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFPN) -- Tech. Sgt. James Monk (left) and Master Sgt. Scott Wagers walk away from a helicopter landing pad here as a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk rises into the air behind them. Wagers and Scott are two aerial-qualified comb.
	Mixed Wildflowers found in the Rooster Comb Research Natural Area on Steens Mountain, in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong.		High Steens looking north at Big Indian Gorge taken near Rooster Comb. (WSA 2-85F). Credit: Scott Moore.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Belgian Proverb	Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In the morning, however, when with an old broken comb she combed her fine hair which flowed down in silky waves, she enjoyed a moment of happiness
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	On the floor lay a broken comb, an empty talcum powder can, and a few dust mice
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Nit (head lice eggs) combs, often found in lice medicine packages, should be used to comb nits and lice from the hair shaft. (references)
		A nit (head lice egg) comb should be used to remove lice and nits from the hair. Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references)
Trade	Switzerland	Special health certificates, stamped by the competent authorities of the country of origin, are required for the import of horses, bovine animals, farm animals, certain domestic animals, bees and eggs for hatching, as well as for meat, game, seafood, beeswax and comb honey. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Look, trying to separate the Middle East equitably is like trying to cut a water balloon in half with the back of a comb.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Comb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.00% of the time. "Comb" is used about 350 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	68%	238	19,410
Lexical Verb (base form)	18%	63	42,364
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	13.43%	47	49,740
Unclassified Items	0.29%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	0.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	350	N/A

Expressions using "comb": back comb ♦ carding comb ♦ cock's comb ♦ comb honey ♦ comb jellies ♦ comb jelly ♦ comb one's hair ♦ comb oneself ♦ comb out ♦ comb straight ♦ comb through ♦ comb wool ♦ Continental comb ♦ cow comb ♦ crest's comb ♦ curry comb ♦ fine comb ♦ flax comb ♦ give one's hair a comb ♦ go over smth. with a fine comb ♦ honey comb ♦ Lady's comb ♦ Mc Comb ♦ pocket comb ♦ ripple comb ♦ small comb ♦ tail comb ♦ top comb ♦ Venus's comb. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "comb": comb-back, comb-footed spider, comb-jellies, comb-like, comb-on, comb-out, comb-rows, comb-sack, comb-sacks, comb-scalpel, Comb-shaped, comb-spinelets.
	Ending with "comb": brush-and-comb.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "comb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		kam. (various references)

Albanian		thyhem (break, break off, crash, deflect, dilapidate, go to pieces, snap), lafshë (crest, dewlap, pectination, prepuce), krihem, kreshpërohem, krehëse (card), krehër (clip, rake, raker), kreh (card, comb oneself, comb out, dress), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), huall (honeycomb), griba (currycomb, rake). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشط كبير, ‏مشط (card, clip, coif the hair, coiffure the hair, do the hair, do up the hair, dress, reed, scour, style the hair, tease), ‏نقب (burrow, burrowing, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, rake, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), ‏قرص عسل, ‏تدحرج (drive, roll, roulade, trundle, tumble down), ‏عرف الفرس (mane). (various references)

Aymara		chhajhraña (to comb one's hair). (various references)

Basque		orrazi. (various references)

Blackfoot		yáakihkiniiyi (to comb hair). (various references)

Bulgarian		реша (brush up), разбивам се (beat, lash), разбивам на дарак, хребет (crest, knife edge, ridge), чесало (currycomb, horse-comb), чистя с чесало, гребен на петел (cockscomb), гребен (crest, edge, heckle, rack, ridge, ripple, screw), било (back, crest, ridge, summit), претърсвам щателно, пчелна восъчна пита. (various references)

Catalan		pinta. (various references)

Chinese		梳子 . (various references)

Cornish		crýb. (various references)

Czech		hřeben (crest, ridge, spine, top). (various references)

Danish		kam (bank, beater, chine, crest, dent, finger, grain finger, jugum, lifter, reed, ridge, sley, tenon, tooth, wiper, wraith), kæmme. (various references)

Dutch		uitkammen (rake), kammen (combing, combs), kam (mountain ridge). (various references)

Esperanto		kombilo, kombi. (various references)

Faeroese		kemba, greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, curl, define, deliver, determine, do, explain, furnish, supply). (various references)

Farsi		جستجوکردن (Attempt, Fish, Grub, Look, Mouse, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek, Sick), شانه کردن (Heckle), شانه (Heckle, Pitchfork, Shoulder). (various references)

Finnish		kampa (tooth comb), kammata, harja (brush, crest, mane, ridge, top). (various references)

French		peigne (dress comb, hair comb, pinned comb, ripple comb, rough coniferous tree, straight comb), peigner, rayon (honey comb), crête. (various references)

Frisian		kjimme. (various references)

German		Kamm (crest, mountain ridge, ridge, stalk, top), kämmen (card, comb through, tease, tease out, to comb). (various references)

Greek		χτένα (beater, reed), κηρήθρα (beeswax, honeycomb), χτενίζω (scour), λειρί (coxcomb, crest). (various references)

Hawaiian		krihem. (various references)

Hebrew		מסרק (chaser), לסרוק (card, lacerate, scan, scour, scratch, search), לסרק, ל� פות (riddle, scrutinize, sieve, sift, winnow). (various references)

Hungarian		fésû. (various references)

Icelandic		kambur. (various references)

Indonesian		sisir, penggaruk (curry, harrow, rake, scraper). (various references)

Inuktitut		gutinga. (various references)

Irish		cior, cíor, raca. (various references)

Italian		pettinare (comb one's hair), pettine (crest, pecten, scallop), favo (favus, honeycomb), cresta (Chine, cop, coping, crest, ridge, spine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		櫛 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くし (order around, skewer, spit, use freely). (various references)

Korean		빗 (Combs). (various references)

Malay		sisir, menyisir. (various references)

Manx		keyjeen (cockscomb, coxcomb), kerey (cering, combing, curry, curry as horse, groom, hackle; mopping up, hackling; teasel, mop up, tease, tease as wool, teasing, teazle, wax), kereen (coxcomb, crest, pack, topknot), caartey (card, carding, combing, curry, spoil). (various references)

Maori		heru-a (to comb). (various references)

Mohawk		atkerothiya. (various references)

Norwegian		kjemme, kam (loin). (various references)

Occitan		penche. (various references)

Papago		shakajtha tahtshakud. (various references)

Papiamen		peña. (various references)

Pig Latin		ombcay.(various references)

Polish		czesać, grzebień. (various references)

Portuguese		pente (currycomb), favo de mel (honeycomb), crista (chaplet, crest, currycomb, edge, gardenbed, hummock, ridge, spine, tip, top). (various references)

Romanian		pieptene. (various references)

Romansch		petgen. (various references)

Romany		kanglì. (various references)

Russian		расчесывать (comb out), расческа, чесать (scratch), чесалка (hackle, ripple), конек крыши (gable), гребешок (crest, escallop, scallop, scollop), гребень (arris, cam, crest, crown, flange, hackle, peak, pectination, ridge, ruff, tongue), гребенка, ложбина (coomb, dell, ravine), прочесывать (scour), причесывать гребень, пчелиные соты. (various references)

Scottish		cìr (a comb, as wool, crest of a cock, cud, tease). (various references)

Sepedi		sekamo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		začešljati, pročešljati (mop up, tooth-comb), kresta (crest, topknot), greben (card, crag, crest, mull, overfall, reef, ridge, ripple, skerry), češljati (tease, teasel), češalj. (various references)

Spanish		peine (fly), peinar (do, dress). (various references)

Sranan		kankan, kan (be able, be able to, be possible, goblet). (various references)

Swedish		kamma (tease), kam (cam), honungskaka (honey comb, honeycomb). (various references)

Tagalog		sukláy. (various references)

Thai		เครื่องมือแยกเส้นใย, รวงผึ้ง, หงอนไก่, หวี (hackle), ค้นหาอย่างละเอีย�". (various references)

Turkish		taramak (card, drag, groom, rake, scan, sweep, teasel), tarak (card, drag, dredger, scallop, scollop). (various references)

Turkmen		timar bermek (brush), kekeз, daramak, darak. (various references)

Ukrainian		скребло (currycomb), розчісуватися (comb oneself), чесати (card, hackle, ripple), чесалка (hackle, ripple), гребінь (apex, back, band, cam, crest, crown, flange, hip, ruff, wedge). (various references)

Vietnamese		chóp (cap, crown, ridge, top). (various references)

Welsh		cribo (card), crib (brow, crest, ridge), dil. (various references)

Yucatec		xaachetik, xaache'. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carere, cari, carioth, caris, carmonii, caro, carri, charram. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	creste. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Khria melitoV logoi kaloi glukasma de autwn iasiV yuchV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Favus mellis verba conposita dulcedo animae et sanitas ossuum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The comb of hony wel set woordis; swetnesse of soule is helthe of bones.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 24
Cebuano	¶ Ang makalilipay nga mga pulong ingon sa usa ka udlan sa dugos, Matam-is sa kalag ug makapalig-on sa mga bukog.
Croatian	Saæe meda rijeèi su ljupke, slatke duši i lijek kostima.
Danish	Hulde Ord er som flydende Honning, søde for Sjælen og sunde for Legemet.
Dutch	Liefelijke redenen zijn een honigraat, zoet voor de ziel, en medicijn voor het gebeente.
Finnish	Lempeät sanat ovat mesileipää; ne ovat makeat sielulle ja lääkitys luille.
French	Les paroles agréables sont un rayon de miel, Douces pour l`âme et salutaires pour le corps.
German	Die Reden des Freundlichen sind Honigseim, trösten die Seele und erfrischen die Gebeine.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Perkataan ramah serupa madu; manis rasanya dan menyehatkan tubuh.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Perkataan yang manis-manis itu seperti air madu adanya, ia itu sedap kepada hati dan obat kepada tulang-tulang.
Italian	Favo di miele sono le parole gentili, dolcezza per l'anima e refrigerio per il corpo.
Maori	¶ Ko nga kupu matareka ano kei te honikoma, he reka ki te wairua, he rongoa ki nga wheua.
Norwegian	Milde ord er kostelig honning, søt for sjelen og en lægedom for kroppen.
Portuguese	Palavras suaves são como favos de mel, doçura para a alma e saúde para o corpo.
Rumanian	Cuvintele prietenoase sknt ca un fagur de miere, dulci pentru suflet, wi sqnqtoase pentru oase. -
Russian	рТЙСФОБС ТЕЮШ--УПФПЧЩК НЕ�", УМБ�"ЛБ �"МС �"ХЫЙ Й �"ЕМЕ�'ОБ �"МС ЛПУФЕК.
Spanish	Panal de miel son los dichos suaves; son dulces al alma y saludables al cuerpo.
Swedish	Milda ord äro honungskakor; de äro ljuvliga för själen och en läkedom för kroppen.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "comb": combat, combatant, combatants, combated, combater, combaters, combating, combative, combatively, combativeness, combativenesses, combats, combatted, combatting, combe, combed, comber, combers, combes, combinable, combination, combinational, combinations, combinative, combinatorial, combinatorially, combinatorics, combinatory, combine, combined, combiner, combiners, combines, combing, combings, combining, comblike, combo, combos, combs, combust, combusted, combustibilities, combustibility, combustible, combustibles, combustibly, combusting, combustion, combustions, combustive. (additional references)
	Words ending with "comb": beachcomb, catacomb, cockscomb, coxcomb, currycomb, honeycomb, recomb. (additional references)
	Words containing "comb": beachcombed, beachcomber, beachcombers, beachcombing, beachcombs, buncombe, buncombes, catacombs, cockscombs, coxcombical, coxcombries, coxcombry, coxcombs, currycombed, currycombing, currycombs, discombobulate, discombobulated, discombobulates, discombobulating, discombobulation, discombobulations, honeycombed, honeycombing, honeycombs, incombustibilities, incombustibility, incombustible, incombustibles, noncombat, noncombatant, noncombatants, noncombative, noncombustible, noncombustibles, nonrecombinant, nonrecombinants, precombustion, precombustions, recombed, recombinant, recombinants, recombination, recombinational, recombinations, recombine, recombined, recombines, recombing, recombining, recombs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Comb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camb, Ccojb, Cemc, cfm, chomb, Chomba, clonb, cmbor, cmg, cmm, Cmyb, coab, cobb, colb, Comba, combi, comby, comc, comg, comi, Commg, commy, comt, comy, conv, coob, coombi, coomi, Corb, coub, Coumba, cpm, Cromb, cumb, cumm, ecom, momb, ombu, romb. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "comb" (pronounced kō"m)
3	k ō" m	Combe.
2	-ō" m	nome, ohm, chrome, dome, foam, Holm, home, loam, roam, Shalom, tome.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-m-o"
	-1 letter: cob, mob, moc.
	-2 letters: bo, mo, om.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-m-o"
	+1 letter: clomb, combe, combo, combs, coomb.
	+2 letters: become, bemock, bromic, combat, combed, comber, combes, combos, coombe, coombs, corymb, crambo, mobcap, recomb, tombac.
	+3 letters: amoebic, becomes, bemocks, cabomba, cembalo, combats, combers, combine, combing, combust, coombes, corymbs, coulomb, coxcomb, crambos, embolic, microbe, mobcaps, recombs, rhombic, tomback, tombacs, umbonic.
	+4 letters: backmost, backroom, beclamor, becoming, bemocked, bichrome, bionomic, bombycid, bromidic, buncombe, cabombas, cambogia, catacomb, cembalos, choriamb, ciborium, cimbalom, clubroom, coembody, coloboma, columbic, combated, combater, combined, combiner, combines, combings, comblike, combusts, comeback, comember, corymbed, coulombs, coxcombs, cramboes, cubiform, cumbrous, cymbalom, hecatomb, maccaboy, maccoboy, matchbox, microbar, microbes, microbic, microbus, mobocrat, mockable, molybdic, morbific, mossback, outclimb, outclomb, recombed, symbolic, tombacks, uncombed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
holly marie comb	1,634	bridal comb	27
comb	291	jeffrey comb	26
holly marie comb nude	259	holly marie comb nude pic	23
sean comb	196	cereal comb honey	22
hair comb	113	comb fin	22
comb michael	86	comb free holly marie nude	22
sean puffy comb	81	holly marie comb nude picture	21
honey comb	76	puffy comb	20
holly comb	74	comb jelly	20
holly marie comb picture	66	tiara comb	19
ray comb	65	charmed comb holly marie	19
comb hannity	59	comb lynette	19
holly marie comb naked	53	hot comb	17
laser comb	47	comb filter	17
comb hollie marie	45	holly marie comb wallpaper	16
holly marie comb pic	34	wyatt tarrant and comb	16
binding comb	33	comb twist	16
comb diddy p sean	32	bridal hair comb	16
comb custom cycle	31	comb micheal	15
comb holly mary	27	pressing comb	15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Comb

Definition: Comb

Comb

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Comb

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Cleanness

Punishment

Sharpness

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

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