Comb
noun
- 1.
- (a strip of bone or plastic with teeth, used for tidying the hair or holding it in place, the fleshy crest of a fowl, a honeycomb) pocket comb ក្រាសសិត, doubleedged comb ស្និត, rooster's comb សិរមាន់
- 2.
- (វេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ) សិរ៍
verb — past tense: combed ; past participle: combed ; present participle: combing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to clean arrange with a comb, to remove with or as with a comb) comb one's hair សិត, សិតសក់ comb the files រកសព្វ, រកពាសពេញ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
- 2.
- An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
- 3.
- A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
- 4.
- The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- 5.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
- 6.
- A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- 7.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- 8.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- 9.
- The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
- 10.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
- 11.
- The curling crest of a wave.
- 12.
- The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
- 13.
- The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
- 14.
- A dry measure.
verb — past tense: combed ; past participle: combed ; present participle: combing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool.
- 2.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.