comb

Meanings

• 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"
• 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"
  • "comb the wool"

Synonyms

cockscomb, comb out, combing, coxcomb, disentangle, ransack