<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.</li><li>a currycomb.</li><li>any comblike instrument, object, or formation.</li><li>the fleshy, more or less serrated outgrowth on the head of certain gallinaceous birds, especially the domestic fowl.</li><li>something resembling or suggesting this, as the crest of a wave.</li><li>a honeycomb, or any similar group of cells.</li><li>a machine for separating choice cotton or wool fibers from noil.</li><li>a comblike instrument for imparting a grainlike finish to a painted surface.</li><li>a ridge of a roof (chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.).</li><li>a series of springlike prongs projecting from a spine, usually of plastic, for making a loose-leaf binding.</li><li>a trowel having a notched edge for applying adhesives in setting tiles or the like.</li><li>a ridge along the top of a helmet, especially of the morion (armor).</li><li>drag (masonry).</li><li>the upper edge of the buttstock of a rifle or shotgun.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to arrange or adorn (the hair) with a comb.</li><li>to use (something) in the manner of a comb: She was slowly combing her fingers through her hair.</li><li>to remove (anything undesirable) with or as if with a comb: She combed the snarls out of her hair.</li><li>to search everywhere in: He combed the files for the missing letter.</li><li>to separate (textile fibers) with a comb.</li><li>to scrape with or as with a comb.</li><li>to sweep across; rake: High winds combed the seacoast.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to roll over or break at the crest, as a wave.</li></ul>