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 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
- 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
- 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.
- Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «comb» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.