Combed

Definition: Combed

Combed

Adjective

1. (of hair) made tidy with a comb; "with hair combed to the side".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "combed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Crosswords: Combed

You've combed the galaxy and all you've come up with is mono-colored trash, bleeding hearts and do-gooders. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)

Oh, I combed my hair in a pompadour (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel)

You got your hair combed back and your (The Boys of Summer; performing artist: Don Henley)

Christ, I think he's even combed his hair! (Chuck E's in love; performing artist: Rickie Lee Jones)

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References

• The World Market for Carded or Combed Cotton: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• A Comic Book of Pets: Found, Raised, Washed, Curried, Combed, Fed, and Cared for in Every Other Way (reference)

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A 9 year-old white child, is pictured here in a home setting with her mother getting dressed, and having her hair combed. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age three for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

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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.

His stiff gray hair was mussed back from his brow as though he had combed it back with his fingers.

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Health

In the past two decades, neuroscientists have combed through it in search of defects that might explain what goes wrong in this disease. (references)

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Expressions using "combed": combed back ♦ combed cotton ♦ combed wool ♦ yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool. Additional references.

Beginning with "combed": combed-out.

Ending with "combed": back-combed.

Chinese 

梳 (Combing). (various references)

Danish

uld (wool), langhoer (combed flax, hackled flax), kamgarn (worsted yarn, yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool), kaemmet uld (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), ikke kartet eller kaemmet (cotton, not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), heglet hoer (combed flax, hackled flax), heglehoer (combed flax, hackled flax), bomuld (cotton). (various references)

Dutch

wol (wool), niet gekaard of gekamd (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), niet gekaard en niet gekamd (cotton, not carded or combed, uncarded or uncombed coarse animal hair, uncarded or uncombed fine animal hair), katoen (cotton), kamgaren (worsted), gekamde wol (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), gehekeld vlas (combed flax, hackled flax). (various references)

French

peignés, peignées, peignée, peigné, peigna. (various references)

German

kämmte (carded), gekämmt. (various references)

Greek 

βάμβακας παρουσιαζόμενος σε μάζες (cotton, not carded or combed), νήμα από χτενισμένο μαλλί (worsted yarn, yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool), μαλλί σε μάζες (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), χτενισμένο μαλλί (combed sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסורק (carded), סרוק (carded). (various references)

Hungarian

fésült. (various references)

Italian

cotone in massa (cotton, not carded or combed), lino pettinato (combed flax, hackled flax), lana pettinata (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), lana in massa (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), filato di lana pettinata (worsted yarn, yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逆毛 (hair which is combed back or puffed up or teased), ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality), 梳毛 (combed wool). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バーコードヘア (hair combed in stripes across a bald pate), そもう (combed wool), さか�' (hair which is combed back or puffed up or teased). (various references)

Korean 

빗질하�". (various references)

Manx

screebit (abraded, chafed, grated, scraped, scratched, struck), reaghit (cleared, decided, determined, settled), kerit (groomed, mopped up), caartit. (various references)

Pig Latin

ombedcay

Portuguese

lã penteada (combed wool), lá penteada (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), lá em rama (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), fio de lá penteada (worsted yarn, yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool), algodão penteado (combed cotton), algodão em rama (padding, raw cotton, wadding). (various references)

Russian 

причесывать (brush). (various references)

Spanish

lana sin cardar (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), lana peinada (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), lana cardada (combed wool), hilado de lana peinada (worsted yarn, yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool), algodón sin cardar ni peinar (cotton, not carded or combed), algodón cardado (combed cotton). (various references)

Swedish

bakåtkammad (combed back). (various references)

Turkish

taranmış (worsted). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "combed": beachcombed, currycombed, honeycombed, recombed, uncombed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Combed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cambed, cemed, clombe, cobbed, Comband, combi, Combidoc, combind, comble, comed, comped, coombi, Crombet, Kombayi, pombe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: combe, demob.

-2 letters: bode, code, coed, comb, come, deco, demo, dome, mode.

-3 letters: bed, bod, cob, cod, deb, doc, doe, dom, med, mob, moc, mod, obe, ode.

-4 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, em, me, mo, od, oe, om.

+2 letters: bemocked, coembody, combated, combined, corymbed, recombed, uncombed.

+3 letters: combatted, combusted.

+4 letters: beclamored, biomedical, coembodied, coembodies, mossbacked, outclimbed, recombined, uncombined.

+5 letters: bachelordom, beachcombed, bichromated, biomedicine, chemisorbed, coembodying, commandable, commendable, commendably, condemnable, currycombed, debouchment, embarcadero, honeycombed, musclebound.