What does comb mean in English?

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comb Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a flat piece of plastic, wood, or metal with a thin row of long, narrow parts along one side, used to tidy and arrange your hair
1 a soft, red, growth on a chicken's head
2 to tidy your hair using a comb:
- She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.
- I've been trying to comb out (= remove using a comb) the knots in her hair.
3 to search a place or an area very carefully in order to find something:
- The police combed the whole area for evidence.
- Investigators combed through the wreckage.
4 a strip of plastic, wood, or metal with a row of long, narrow parts along one side, which is used to arrange or hold the hair:
- Combs have been used from ancient times by women to hold and fix their hair.
5 to search a place or an area very carefully:
- The police combed the surrounding woods for evidence.
6 to arrange your hair by pulling a comb through it:
- She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.

I can't find my brush, but I still have my comb.
Can I borrow your comb?.
I always carry a comb in my handbag.
I combed my hair before I left home.
Comb your hair before you have your photo taken.
She combed her hair with her fingers.
The difficult part is encoding: we have to transform a generalised duplicator into a generalised sharing, that is, a tree into a comb.
Filaments are forming dense, interconnected fibrous cylinders around each comb cell (fc).