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ENGLISH: comb - CREOLE: peny

Overview of noun comb

The noun comb has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (3) comb -- (a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair)

2. (1) comb, cockscomb, coxcomb -- (the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds)

3. comb -- (a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl)

4. comb -- (any of several tools for straightening fibers)

5. comb -- (ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore)

6. comb, combing -- (the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb")

Overview of verb comb

The verb comb has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (1) comb -- (straighten with a comb; "comb your hair")

2. (1) comb, ransack -- (search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child")

3. (1) comb, comb out, disentangle -- (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool")