comb
part of speech
noun (comb, combs); verb (comb, combs, combed, combing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A comb is a flat strip with a row of thin teeth used to tidy your hair. tree →
2) To comb your hair is to make it neat with a comb. tree →
3) To comb a place is to search it very carefully. tree →
4) A comb is the red crest on a rooster's head; a honeycomb is the wax cells bees make. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Isaiah "combed flax" means flax cleaned and straightened with a comb before it is spun into linen thread. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and hygiene, pupils comb their hair; a nit comb finds head lice. In stories police comb the woods for a missing child. In science lessons bees store honey in a honeycomb. Phrases: comb your hair, nit comb, comb through, fine-tooth comb, honeycomb.
examples
- Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed. (Prophets ISA.19.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Comb your hair before school. tree →
- I lost my comb. tree →
- Mum used a nit comb to check for lice. tree →
- The police combed the park for clues. tree →
- We combed the beach for shells. tree →
- A rooster has a red comb on its head. tree →
- Bees keep honey in a honeycomb. tree →
- He gave Wendy one of their combs. tree →
note
The «b» is silent: say «kohm». Same silent b in «climb», «lamb», «thumb». Regular verb (combed, said «kohmd»). Don't share combs — head lice spread that way.
In the corpora
- Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.
- Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.
- A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.
- A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as dirty hair.
- A rubbed comb can pick up bits of paper and even bend a thin stream of tap water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «comb» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.