comb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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;[…].”

2. isim A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. isim The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
4. isim A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
5. isim The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
6. isim The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
7. isim A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
8. isim A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
9. isim One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
10. isim A ctene.

    “Ctenophores are mostly planktonic creatures about the size and shape of a kiwi fruit or grape, bearing rows of beating "combs."”

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

    “I also obtained here a specimen of the rare green jungle-fowl (Gallus furcatus), whose back and neck are beautifully scaled with bronzy feathers, and whose smooth-edged oval comb is of a violet purple colour, changing to green at the base.”

12. isim 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 […]”

13. isim The top part of a gun’s stock.
14. isim 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.”

15. isim The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
16. isim A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
17. isim 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.”

18. isim The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
19. isim 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.
20. isim A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
21. fiil Especially of hair or fur, to groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.

    “I like the way you comb your hair / And I like those stylish clothes you wear / It's just the little things you do / That show how much you really care”

22. fiil To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
23. fiil To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

    “Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.”

24. fiil To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
25. fiil To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.

    “The aircraft split up so as to attack from different, preselected bearings, thus confusing the gunners and making it difficult for the ship to comb torpedo tracks.”

26. isim Abbreviation of combination.
27. isim Alternative form of combe.
28. isim Alternative form of coomb.