Usually means: Tool for arranging and detangling hair.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. comb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comb, comb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comb, comb: Wordnik
  7. comb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comb: Wiktionary
  9. comb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COMB, comb: Dictionary.com
  13. comb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. comb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Comb (anatomy), Comb (disambiguation), Comb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Comb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. comb: Rhymezone
  19. comb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. comb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Comb: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Comb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. comb: Free Dictionary
  24. comb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. comb, comb: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. comb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. comb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Comb (anatomy), comb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COMB: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. comb: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. comb, comb, comb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Comb, comb: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See combed as well.)

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noun:  A toothed implement:
noun:  A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
noun:  A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun:  The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
noun:  A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
noun:  The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
noun:  The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
noun:  A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
noun:  (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
noun:  One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
noun:  A crest:
noun:  A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
noun:  (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
noun:  The top part of a gun’s stock.
noun:  A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
noun:  (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
noun:  A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
noun:  An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
noun:  The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
noun:  (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
noun:  (Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
verb:  (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
verb:  (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
verb:  (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
verb:  (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
noun:  (rare) Abbreviation of combination. [The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.]
noun:  Alternative form of combe [A valley, often wooded and often with no river]
noun:  (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb [An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.]

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