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| Shopping | The largest selection of COMB products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | kow'm |
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| Rhymes | aerodrome, astrodome, biome, and 27 more rhymes in owm... |
| Meaning | A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge. Disentangles or arranges hair. |
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| Parts | tooth |
| Broader | device |
| Narrower | fine-tooth comb, fine-toothed comb; hatchel, heckle; pocketcomb, pocket comb |
| Adjectives | comb-like |
| Verbs | comb; comb |
| Meaning | The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds. |
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| Synonyms | cockscomb, coxcomb |
| Part of | gallinaceous bird, gallinacean |
| Broader | crest |
| Meaning | A fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl. |
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| Part of | cock, rooster; turkey cock, gobbler, tom, tom turkey |
| Broader | caruncle, caruncula |
| Meaning | Any of several tools for straightening fibers. |
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| Parts | tooth |
| Broader | tool |
| Narrower | currycomb |
| Verbs | comb |
| Meaning | Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore. |
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| Part of | ctenophore, comb jelly |
| Broader | plate |
| Meaning | The act of drawing a comb through hair. |
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| Examples | "his hair needed a comb" |
| Synonyms | combing |
| Broader | hair care, haircare, hairdressing |
| Narrower | comb-out, teasing |
| Verbs | comb; comb |
| Meaning | Straighten with a comb. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | They comb their hair |
| Examples | "comb your hair" |
| Broader | straighten, straighten out |
| Narrower | roach; currycomb; heckle, hackle, hatchel |
| Nouns | comb, combing; comb |
| Meaning | Search thoroughly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | The men comb the area for animals; The men comb for animals in the area |
| Examples | "They combed the area for the missing child" |
| Synonyms | ransack |
| Broader | search |
| Meaning | Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | They comb their hair |
| Examples | "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" |
| Synonyms | comb out, disentangle |
| Broader | groom, neaten |
| Narrower | slick, slick down, sleek down; tease, fluff |
| Nouns | comb; comb, combing; comb |
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