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adj
- Combed.
- Straightly aligned, as if combed.
- Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.
- Listed officially on an information card.
- Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
- (sports) Signed onto a current season players card.
- (toy, collectables) Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.
verb
verb
- straighten with a comb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- Alternative form of combe.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (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.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
adj
adj
verb
noun
- long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
- An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
- (usually now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
- (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
- A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
- A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
- (uncountable, slang) Pluck; courage or energy.
- A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
- (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
- Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
verb
noun
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- remove unwanted elements
- (transitive, figurative) To winnow; for example, to exempt (someone) from a military draft by filtering them out of the list.
- (transitive, literal) To remove (something) by combing; to thoroughly comb (something); to thoroughly comb (something) so as to remove something else from it (such as tangles, dirt, or nits).
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- free from involvement or entanglement
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
verb
- cover by brushing
- clean with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- remove with or as if with a brush
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- sweep across or over
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
noun
- The act of brushing something.
- the act of brushing your hair
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a dense growth of bushes
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- momentary contact
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
noun
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
verb
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
verb
noun
- An instance of brushing.
- Material removed by brushing.
- (uncountable, Internet) A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and contributes positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.
- the act of brushing your hair
- the act of brushing your teeth
verb
verb
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
adj
- Covered in brush or scrub.
- (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
- (agriculture) Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
- Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
- Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
- (beekeeping) Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
- Having had brush or scrub removed.
- Having been written or painted using a brush.
- (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
- touched lightly in passing; grazed against
verb
verb
- (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
- (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.
- simple past and past participle of rede
- (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
noun
noun
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
- The act of removing tangles from one's hair with a comb.
- The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously, especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; making fun of, making light of someone.
- playful vexation
- the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- (nautical) A backward flow of water, as from oars, a propeller, breaking waves, etc.
- (education) washback
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
noun
noun
- A styling cream used for hair.
- A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
- A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
- An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin
- a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream
- toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling
verb
adj
- (of hair) neat and tidy
- marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
- large in amount or extent or degree
- Not messy; neat and controlled.
- Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- Arranged neatly and in order.
- (data science, of data in a dataset) Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.
- (colloquial) Satisfactory; comfortable.
- (colloquial) Generous, considerable.
noun
- receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)
- A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
- (now chiefly in combination with a modifier) A container or other device for storing or organizing loose items in a tidy fashion.
- The wren.
verb
intj
verb
noun
- the act of washing your hair with shampoo
- cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair
- (humorous, slang) Champagne.
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- (hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
verb
- straighten with a comb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- Alternative form of combe.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (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.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
noun
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
verb
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
verb
noun
- An instance of brushing.
- Material removed by brushing.
- (uncountable, Internet) A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and contributes positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.
- the act of brushing your hair
- the act of brushing your teeth
verb
noun
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
- The act of removing tangles from one's hair with a comb.
- The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously, especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; making fun of, making light of someone.
- playful vexation
- the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
adj
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A styling cream used for hair.
- A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
- A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
- An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin
- a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream
- toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling
verb
verb
- cover by brushing
- clean with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- remove with or as if with a brush
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- sweep across or over
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
noun
- The act of brushing something.
- the act of brushing your hair
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a dense growth of bushes
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- momentary contact
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
verb
- straighten with a comb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- Alternative form of combe.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (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.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
noun
- long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
- An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
- (usually now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
- (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
- A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
- A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
- (uncountable, slang) Pluck; courage or energy.
- A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
- (fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
- Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
verb
noun
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- remove unwanted elements
- (transitive, figurative) To winnow; for example, to exempt (someone) from a military draft by filtering them out of the list.
- (transitive, literal) To remove (something) by combing; to thoroughly comb (something); to thoroughly comb (something) so as to remove something else from it (such as tangles, dirt, or nits).
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- free from involvement or entanglement
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
verb
- cover by brushing
- clean with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- remove with or as if with a brush
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- sweep across or over
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
noun
- The act of brushing something.
- the act of brushing your hair
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a dense growth of bushes
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- momentary contact
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
verb
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
- (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
- (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.
- simple past and past participle of rede
- (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
noun
verb
noun
- The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
- The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
- (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
- (nautical) A backward flow of water, as from oars, a propeller, breaking waves, etc.
- (education) washback
- The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
verb
noun
- the act of washing your hair with shampoo
- cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair
- (humorous, slang) Champagne.
- An instance of washing the hair or other fibres with shampoo.
- (originally) A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs.
- (hygiene) A commercial liquid soaplike product for washing hair or other fibers, such as carpets.
adj
- Combed.
- Straightly aligned, as if combed.
- Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.
- Listed officially on an information card.
- Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
- (sports) Signed onto a current season players card.
- (toy, collectables) Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.
verb
adj
adj
adj
- Covered in brush or scrub.
- (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
- (agriculture) Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
- Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
- Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
- (beekeeping) Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
- Having had brush or scrub removed.
- Having been written or painted using a brush.
- (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
- touched lightly in passing; grazed against
verb
adj
- (of hair) neat and tidy
- marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
- large in amount or extent or degree
- Not messy; neat and controlled.
- Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- Arranged neatly and in order.
- (data science, of data in a dataset) Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.
- (colloquial) Satisfactory; comfortable.
- (colloquial) Generous, considerable.
noun
- receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)
- A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
- (now chiefly in combination with a modifier) A container or other device for storing or organizing loose items in a tidy fashion.
- The wren.