English Dictionary

comb

IPA（発音記号）

/kəʊm/

名詞

広義 コーンウォール方言 廃用

A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. / A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

日本語の意味

髪をとかすための歯のついた道具（櫛） / 綿の繊維を分離するための機械

She reached into her bag and pulled out a comb to tame her frizzy hair.

彼女はバッグに手を入れて、縮れた髪を整えるための櫛を取り出した。

意味（1）

A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].

意味（2）

A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

意味（3）

The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.

意味（4）

A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

意味（5）

The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

意味（6）

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

意味（7）

A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.

意味（8）

(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.

意味（9）

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.

意味（10）

A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.

意味（11）

(by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.

The head-dress of the Horse Grenadiers consists of a peculiar leather helmet with a comb of bear's skin passing over it from ear to ear and a long scarlet […]

意味（12）

The top part of a gun’s stock.

意味（13）

A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.

The combs of the wild bees are found on overhanging precipices, and the only means by which they can be reached is to descend from above on narrow cane ladders just wide enough for a man’s foot, and often 300 feet to 400 feet long.

意味（14）

(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.

意味（15）

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.

意味（16）

An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.

But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.

意味（17）

The curling crest of a wave; a comber.

意味（18）

(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.

意味（19）

(Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.

combs （ plural ）