Definitions for Combs

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Combs comb

Spelling: [kohm]

IPA: /koʊm/

Combs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Combs (bcmos).

Definitions for Combs

noun

1. a toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.
2. a currycomb.
3. any comblike instrument, object, or formation.
4. the fleshy, more or less serrated outgrowth on the head of certain gallinaceous birds, especially the domestic fowl.
5. something resembling or suggesting this, as the crest of a wave.
6. a honeycomb, or any similar group of cells.
7. a machine for separating choice cotton or wool fibers from noil.
8. a comblike instrument for imparting a grainlike finish to a painted surface.
9. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a ridge of a roof.
10. a series of springlike prongs projecting from a spine, usually of plastic, for making a loose-leaf binding.
11. a trowel having a notched edge for applying adhesives in setting tiles or the like.
12. Armor. a ridge along the top of a helmet, especially of the morion.
13. Masonry. drag (def 31).
14. the upper edge of the buttstock of a rifle or shotgun.
15. combe.
16. a narrow valley or deep hollow, especially one enclosed on all but one side.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange or adorn (the hair) with a comb.
2. to use (something) in the manner of a comb:
3. to remove (anything undesirable) with or as if with a comb:
4. to search everywhere in:
5. to separate (textile fibers) with a comb.
6. to scrape with or as with a comb.
7. to sweep across; rake:

verb (used without object)

1. to roll over or break at the crest, as a wave.

Origin of Combs

before 900; Middle English; Old English comb, camb; cognate with Old High German kamb (German Kamm), Old Norse kambr, Greek gómphos “pin, peg,” gomphíos “molar tooth”; see

Examples for Combs

For the next few hours, police used search dogs to comb the woods for the man.

Upon landing, he was reportedly spotted wandering the tarmac with only a comb in his pocket.

Her readers, some of whom she calls obsessive, comb her blog and her Tweets for clues.

Bush once famously remarked that he looks in the mirror only when he needs to comb his hair.

I wanted to comb it, to swing it, to spin around in circles.

She decided I needed a “comb through,” which meant it would be straightened from the root to the tip (even better in my mind).

comb the coast, and you could stumble upon that dream weekend retreat.

He called on Libyans to “sweep through Tripoli and comb it for traitors.”