Dictionary definition · comb
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- the act of drawing a comb through hair"his hair needed a comb"
verb
- straighten with a comb"comb your hair"
- search thoroughly"They combed the area for the missing child"
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb"comb your hair before dinner"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).