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Definition: Comb |
CombNoun1. 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. 3. A fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl. 4. Any of several tools for straightening fibers. 5. Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore. 6. The act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb". Verb1. Straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool". 2. Search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child". 3. Of hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "comb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A device that supports the access arms on a disk drive. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A fleshy crest on the head of the domestic ford and other gallinaceous birds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Small, deep valley running down to the sea; also, a bowl-shaped, generally unwatered valley or hollow on the flank of a hill, especially a dry, closed-in valley on the chalk downs of southern England. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The device which keeps the warp yarns separated, helps to determine cloth width and acts as a beater. Source: European Union. (references) |
| After scutching the fibres are usually combed or hackled by drawing them through sets of pins. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The coarse steel comb used to remove leaves, seeds, and other foreign substances from flax straw. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Figure 7. 2 Fiber meter and blending feeder. . . --. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Comb A crabtree comb. A cudgel applied to the head. To smooth your hair with a crabtree comb, is to give the head a knock with a stick. Reynard's wonderful comb. This comb existed only in the brain of Master Fox. He said it was made of the Panthera's bone, the perfume of which was so fragrant that no one could resist following it; and the wearer of the comb was always cheerful and merry. (Reynard the Fox, chap. ii.) To comb one's head. To humiliate a person, or to give him a "set down." "I'll carry you with me to my country box, and keep you out of harm's way, till I find you a wife who will comb your head for you."- Bulwer-Lytton: What will he do with it? iv. 16. To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool (Taming of the Shrew, i. 1) is to beat you about the head with a stool. Many stools, such as those used by milkmaids, are still made with three legs; and these handy weapons seem to have been used at one time pretty freely, especially by angry women. To cut one's comb. To take down a person's conceit. In allusion to the practice of cutting the combs of capons. To set up one's comb is to be cockish and vainglorious. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | In a fissure that has been filled by successive deposits of minerals on the walls, the place where two sets of layers thus deposited approach most nearly or meet, closing the fissure and exhibiting either a drusy centralcavity or an interlocking of crystals. See also:comb texture. (references) |
Occupations | Precut undipped pasteboard resembling a hair comb, used for book matches. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | COMB. To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | As for all passenger control the customs inspection position should be arranged as a < --". Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The etymology of the English word is extremely ancient, going straight back to Indo-European roots meaning "tooth", "toothed", "to bite", and found in ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Combs are among the older tools known to mankind, having been found in very refined forms already in settlements dating back to 5000 years ago in Persia - possibly at the height of the first major Indo-European migrations.
It can be argued that combs do not have only value as cosmetic implements. Combs may have given users an evolutionary advantage by helping in the endless fight against parasites. In fact, Indo-European or otherwise, there are no known traditional civilizations that ignore the use of combs, even those whose members have hair that is quite hard to comb.
The term is applied in English also to
Sharing combs is a common source of parasitic infections, as one user can leave a comb with plenty of eggs or even live parasites, facilitating the transmission of lice, fleas, crabs, mites, fungi, and other undesirables. While these parasitic infestations can be just mighily annoying per se, they can also act as a conduit for more serious illnesses, such as the Black Plague, that killed one third of all Europeans in the 14th century.
There are no known stricly religious meanings for the use of combs, although these tools are mentioned in various religious scriptures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Comb."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COMB | English | Center of Marine Biotechnology | N/A |
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Synonyms: CombSynonyms: cockscomb (n), combing (n), coxcomb (n), comb out (v), disentangle (v), ransack (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep. |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Either that, or he plans to grab his comb over and Mary Poppins his way down past the 80th floor (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Right now, I'm eating scrambled eggs, with a comb, from a shoe (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) I could look at you if I wanted to, but frankly, I've grown tired of counting the comb marks in your hair (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Round 'em up, ride 'em in, get 'em up, get 'em dressed, comb their hair, brush their teeth, Rawhide (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) If you have lovely hair you must want a comb in there (Snow White; writing credit: Michael Berz; Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm) | |
Lyrics | The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) No comb had touched your hair (Hold My Hand; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won't (Video; performing artist: India.Arie) | |
Clever | Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. (references; author: Belgian Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Shell Comb Industry (1914) | |
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 | The important identifying characteristics of a Wyeomyia mosquito larva are that it lacks the median ventral brush and it has comb scales. Credit: CDC. |  | The anal segment of Coquillettidia does not bear prominent hair tufts on the ventral aspect of the saddle, although one or two small hairs may be present posteriorly, with 8 or more comb scales on the abdominal segment VIII in this genus. Credit: CDC. |
 | A prominent patch of scales, known as the comb scales, occurs on each side of the eighth abdominal segment in most genera. Credit: CDC. |  | Toxorhynchites larvae are distinguished readily by the presence of the lateral plate bearing spinulose hairs. Note that comb scales are not present on its eigth terminal segment. Credit: CDC. |
 | The eighth terminal segment of the Orthopodomyia larva possesses comb scales, and differs from the Wyeomyia by its closely set tufts of hairs on the ventral side of the tenth abdominal segment, forming the median ventral brush. Credit: CDC. |  | Wyeomyia larvae have comb scales like the Orthopodomyia larvae, but the median ventral brush is lacking. Members of this genus breed in water held by the leaves of plants. Credit: CDC. |
 | Ctenophore or comb jellyfish feeding. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | CAMP BUTMIR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFPN) -- Tech. Sgt. James Monk (left) and Master Sgt. Scott Wagers walk away from a helicopter landing pad here as a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk rises into the air behind them. Wagers and Scott are two aerial-qualified comb. |
 | Mixed Wildflowers found in the Rooster Comb Research Natural Area on Steens Mountain, in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | High Steens looking north at Big Indian Gorge taken near Rooster Comb. (WSA 2-85F). Credit: Scott Moore. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Belgian Proverb | Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the morning, however, when with an old broken comb she combed her fine hair which flowed down in silky waves, she enjoyed a moment of happiness |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the floor lay a broken comb, an empty talcum powder can, and a few dust mice |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Nit (head lice eggs) combs, often found in lice medicine packages, should be used to comb nits and lice from the hair shaft. (references) | |
A nit (head lice egg) comb should be used to remove lice and nits from the hair. Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references) | ||
Trade | Switzerland | Special health certificates, stamped by the competent authorities of the country of origin, are required for the import of horses, bovine animals, farm animals, certain domestic animals, bees and eggs for hatching, as well as for meat, game, seafood, beeswax and comb honey. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Look, trying to separate the Middle East equitably is like trying to cut a water balloon in half with the back of a comb. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Comb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.00% of the time. "Comb" is used about 350 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 18% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.43% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 350 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "comb": back comb ♦ carding comb ♦ cock's comb ♦ comb honey ♦ comb jellies ♦ comb jelly ♦ comb one's hair ♦ comb oneself ♦ comb out ♦ comb straight ♦ comb through ♦ comb wool ♦ Continental comb ♦ cow comb ♦ crest's comb ♦ curry comb ♦ fine comb ♦ flax comb ♦ give one's hair a comb ♦ go over smth. with a fine comb ♦ honey comb ♦ Lady's comb ♦ Mc Comb ♦ pocket comb ♦ ripple comb ♦ small comb ♦ tail comb ♦ top comb ♦ Venus's comb. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "comb": comb-back, comb-footed spider, comb-jellies, comb-like, comb-on, comb-out, comb-rows, comb-sack, comb-sacks, comb-scalpel, Comb-shaped, comb-spinelets. | |
Ending with "comb": brush-and-comb. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
holly marie comb | 1,634 | bridal comb | 27 |
comb | 291 | jeffrey comb | 26 |
holly marie comb nude | 259 | holly marie comb nude pic | 23 |
sean comb | 196 | cereal comb honey | 22 |
hair comb | 113 | comb fin | 22 |
comb michael | 86 | comb free holly marie nude | 22 |
sean puffy comb | 81 | holly marie comb nude picture | 21 |
honey comb | 76 | puffy comb | 20 |
holly comb | 74 | comb jelly | 20 |
holly marie comb picture | 66 | tiara comb | 19 |
ray comb | 65 | charmed comb holly marie | 19 |
comb hannity | 59 | comb lynette | 19 |
holly marie comb naked | 53 | hot comb | 17 |
laser comb | 47 | comb filter | 17 |
comb hollie marie | 45 | holly marie comb wallpaper | 16 |
holly marie comb pic | 34 | wyatt tarrant and comb | 16 |
binding comb | 33 | comb twist | 16 |
comb diddy p sean | 32 | bridal hair comb | 16 |
comb custom cycle | 31 | comb micheal | 15 |
comb holly mary | 27 | pressing comb | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "comb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kam. (various references) | |
Albanian | thyhem (break, break off, crash, deflect, dilapidate, go to pieces, snap), lafshë (crest, dewlap, pectination, prepuce), krihem, kreshpërohem, krehëse (card), krehër (clip, rake, raker), kreh (card, comb oneself, comb out, dress), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), huall (honeycomb), griba (currycomb, rake). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشط كبير, مشط (card, clip, coif the hair, coiffure the hair, do the hair, do up the hair, dress, reed, scour, style the hair, tease), نقب (burrow, burrowing, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, rake, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), قرص عسل, تدحرج (drive, roll, roulade, trundle, tumble down), عرف الفرس (mane). (various references) | |
Aymara | chhajhraña (to comb one's hair). (various references) | |
Basque | orrazi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | yáakihkiniiyi (to comb hair). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | реша (brush up), разбивам се (beat, lash), разбивам на дарак, хребет (crest, knife edge, ridge), чесало (currycomb, horse-comb), чистя с чесало, гребен на петел (cockscomb), гребен (crest, edge, heckle, rack, ridge, ripple, screw), било (back, crest, ridge, summit), претърсвам щателно, пчелна восъчна пита. (various references) | |
Catalan | pinta. (various references) | |
Chinese | 梳子 . (various references) | |
Cornish | crýb. (various references) | |
Czech | hřeben (crest, ridge, spine, top). (various references) | |
Danish | kam (bank, beater, chine, crest, dent, finger, grain finger, jugum, lifter, reed, ridge, sley, tenon, tooth, wiper, wraith), kæmme. (various references) | |
Dutch | uitkammen (rake), kammen (combing, combs), kam (mountain ridge). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kombilo, kombi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kemba, greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, curl, define, deliver, determine, do, explain, furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Farsi | جستجوکردن (Attempt, Fish, Grub, Look, Mouse, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek, Sick), شانه کردن (Heckle), شانه (Heckle, Pitchfork, Shoulder). (various references) | |
Finnish | kampa (tooth comb), kammata, harja (brush, crest, mane, ridge, top). (various references) | |
French | peigne (dress comb, hair comb, pinned comb, ripple comb, rough coniferous tree, straight comb), peigner, rayon (honey comb), crête. (various references) | |
Frisian | kjimme. (various references) | |
German | Kamm (crest, mountain ridge, ridge, stalk, top), kämmen (card, comb through, tease, tease out, to comb). (various references) | |
Greek | χτένα (beater, reed), κηρήθρα (beeswax, honeycomb), χτενίζω (scour), λειρί (coxcomb, crest). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | krihem. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסרק (chaser), לסרוק (card, lacerate, scan, scour, scratch, search), לסרק, ל פות (riddle, scrutinize, sieve, sift, winnow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fésû. (various references) | |
Icelandic | kambur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sisir, penggaruk (curry, harrow, rake, scraper). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | gutinga. (various references) | |
Irish | cior, cíor, raca. (various references) | |
Italian | pettinare (comb one's hair), pettine (crest, pecten, scallop), favo (favus, honeycomb), cresta (Chine, cop, coping, crest, ridge, spine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 櫛 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くし (order around, skewer, spit, use freely). (various references) | |
Korean | 빗 (Combs). (various references) | |
Malay | sisir, menyisir. (various references) | |
Manx | keyjeen (cockscomb, coxcomb), kerey (cering, combing, curry, curry as horse, groom, hackle; mopping up, hackling; teasel, mop up, tease, tease as wool, teasing, teazle, wax), kereen (coxcomb, crest, pack, topknot), caartey (card, carding, combing, curry, spoil). (various references) | |
Maori | heru-a (to comb). (various references) | |
Mohawk | atkerothiya. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjemme, kam (loin). (various references) | |
Occitan | penche. (various references) | |
Papago | shakajtha tahtshakud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | peña. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombcay.(various references) | |
Polish | czesać, grzebień. (various references) | |
Portuguese | pente (currycomb), favo de mel (honeycomb), crista (chaplet, crest, currycomb, edge, gardenbed, hummock, ridge, spine, tip, top). (various references) | |
Romanian | pieptene. (various references) | |
Romansch | petgen. (various references) | |
Romany | kanglì. (various references) | |
Russian | расчесывать (comb out), расческа, чесать (scratch), чесалка (hackle, ripple), конек крыши (gable), гребешок (crest, escallop, scallop, scollop), гребень (arris, cam, crest, crown, flange, hackle, peak, pectination, ridge, ruff, tongue), гребенка, ложбина (coomb, dell, ravine), прочесывать (scour), причесывать гребень, пчелиные соты. (various references) | |
Scottish | cìr (a comb, as wool, crest of a cock, cud, tease). (various references) | |
Sepedi | sekamo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | začešljati, pročešljati (mop up, tooth-comb), kresta (crest, topknot), greben (card, crag, crest, mull, overfall, reef, ridge, ripple, skerry), češljati (tease, teasel), češalj. (various references) | |
Spanish | peine (fly), peinar (do, dress). (various references) | |
Sranan | kankan, kan (be able, be able to, be possible, goblet). (various references) | |
Swedish | kamma (tease), kam (cam), honungskaka (honey comb, honeycomb). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sukláy. (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องมือแยกเส้นใย, รวงผึ้ง, หงอนไก่, หวี (hackle), ค้นหาอย่างละเอีย". (various references) | |
Turkish | taramak (card, drag, groom, rake, scan, sweep, teasel), tarak (card, drag, dredger, scallop, scollop). (various references) | |
Turkmen | timar bermek (brush), kekeз, daramak, darak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скребло (currycomb), розчісуватися (comb oneself), чесати (card, hackle, ripple), чесалка (hackle, ripple), гребінь (apex, back, band, cam, crest, crown, flange, hip, ruff, wedge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chóp (cap, crown, ridge, top). (various references) | |
Welsh | cribo (card), crib (brow, crest, ridge), dil. (various references) | |
Yucatec | xaachetik, xaache'. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carere, cari, carioth, caris, carmonii, caro, carri, charram. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | creste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Khria melitoV logoi kaloi glukasma de autwn iasiV yuchV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Favus mellis verba conposita dulcedo animae et sanitas ossuum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The comb of hony wel set woordis; swetnesse of soule is helthe of bones. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang makalilipay nga mga pulong ingon sa usa ka udlan sa dugos, Matam-is sa kalag ug makapalig-on sa mga bukog. |
| Croatian | Saæe meda rijeèi su ljupke, slatke duši i lijek kostima. |
| Danish | Hulde Ord er som flydende Honning, søde for Sjælen og sunde for Legemet. |
| Dutch | Liefelijke redenen zijn een honigraat, zoet voor de ziel, en medicijn voor het gebeente. |
| Finnish | Lempeät sanat ovat mesileipää; ne ovat makeat sielulle ja lääkitys luille. |
| French | Les paroles agréables sont un rayon de miel, Douces pour l`âme et salutaires pour le corps. |
| German | Die Reden des Freundlichen sind Honigseim, trösten die Seele und erfrischen die Gebeine. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Perkataan ramah serupa madu; manis rasanya dan menyehatkan tubuh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Perkataan yang manis-manis itu seperti air madu adanya, ia itu sedap kepada hati dan obat kepada tulang-tulang. |
| Italian | Favo di miele sono le parole gentili, dolcezza per l'anima e refrigerio per il corpo. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko nga kupu matareka ano kei te honikoma, he reka ki te wairua, he rongoa ki nga wheua. |
| Norwegian | Milde ord er kostelig honning, søt for sjelen og en lægedom for kroppen. |
| Portuguese | Palavras suaves são como favos de mel, doçura para a alma e saúde para o corpo. |
| Rumanian | Cuvintele prietenoase sknt ca un fagur de miere, dulci pentru suflet, wi sqnqtoase pentru oase. - |
| Russian | рТЙСФОБС ТЕЮШ--УПФПЧЩК НЕ", УМБ"ЛБ "МС "ХЫЙ Й "ЕМЕ'ОБ "МС ЛПУФЕК. |
| Spanish | Panal de miel son los dichos suaves; son dulces al alma y saludables al cuerpo. |
| Swedish | Milda ord äro honungskakor; de äro ljuvliga för själen och en läkedom för kroppen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "comb": combat, combatant, combatants, combated, combater, combaters, combating, combative, combatively, combativeness, combativenesses, combats, combatted, combatting, combe, combed, comber, combers, combes, combinable, combination, combinational, combinations, combinative, combinatorial, combinatorially, combinatorics, combinatory, combine, combined, combiner, combiners, combines, combing, combings, combining, comblike, combo, combos, combs, combust, combusted, combustibilities, combustibility, combustible, combustibles, combustibly, combusting, combustion, combustions, combustive. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "comb": beachcomb, catacomb, cockscomb, coxcomb, currycomb, honeycomb, recomb. (additional references) | |
Words containing "comb": beachcombed, beachcomber, beachcombers, beachcombing, beachcombs, buncombe, buncombes, catacombs, cockscombs, coxcombical, coxcombries, coxcombry, coxcombs, currycombed, currycombing, currycombs, discombobulate, discombobulated, discombobulates, discombobulating, discombobulation, discombobulations, honeycombed, honeycombing, honeycombs, incombustibilities, incombustibility, incombustible, incombustibles, noncombat, noncombatant, noncombatants, noncombative, noncombustible, noncombustibles, nonrecombinant, nonrecombinants, precombustion, precombustions, recombed, recombinant, recombinants, recombination, recombinational, recombinations, recombine, recombined, recombines, recombing, recombining, recombs. (additional references) | |
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"Comb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camb, Ccojb, Cemc, cfm, chomb, Chomba, clonb, cmbor, cmg, cmm, Cmyb, coab, cobb, colb, Comba, combi, comby, comc, comg, comi, Commg, commy, comt, comy, conv, coob, coombi, coomi, Corb, coub, Coumba, cpm, Cromb, cumb, cumm, ecom, momb, ombu, romb. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "comb" (pronounced kō"m) |
| 3 | k ō" m | Combe. |
| 2 | -ō" m | nome, ohm, chrome, dome, foam, Holm, home, loam, roam, Shalom, tome. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-m-o" | |
-1 letter: cob, mob, moc. | |
-2 letters: bo, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-m-o" | |
+1 letter: clomb, combe, combo, combs, coomb. | |
+2 letters: become, bemock, bromic, combat, combed, comber, combes, combos, coombe, coombs, corymb, crambo, mobcap, recomb, tombac. | |
+3 letters: amoebic, becomes, bemocks, cabomba, cembalo, combats, combers, combine, combing, combust, coombes, corymbs, coulomb, coxcomb, crambos, embolic, microbe, mobcaps, recombs, rhombic, tomback, tombacs, umbonic. | |
+4 letters: backmost, backroom, beclamor, becoming, bemocked, bichrome, bionomic, bombycid, bromidic, buncombe, cabombas, cambogia, catacomb, cembalos, choriamb, ciborium, cimbalom, clubroom, coembody, coloboma, columbic, combated, combater, combined, combiner, combines, combings, comblike, combusts, comeback, comember, corymbed, coulombs, coxcombs, cramboes, cubiform, cumbrous, cymbalom, hecatomb, maccaboy, maccoboy, matchbox, microbar, microbes, microbic, microbus, mobocrat, mockable, molybdic, mor< | |
