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Meaning of comb

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  comb
      n 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 [syn: {comb}, {cockscomb},
         {coxcomb}]
      3: any of several tools for straightening fibers
      4: ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
      5: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a
         comb" [syn: {comb}, {combing}]
      v 1: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"
      2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing
         child" [syn: {comb}, {ransack}]
      3: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair
         before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: {comb}, {comb out},
         {disentangle}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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