| Noun | 1. | comb - a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hairdevice - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal | |
| 2. | comb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birdscrest - a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | |
| 3. | comb - a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowlcaruncle, caruncula - an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | |
| 4. | comb - any of several tools for straightening fiberscurrycomb - a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal | |
| 5. | comb - ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophorecomb jelly, ctenophore - biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb plate - any flat platelike body structure or part | |
| 6. | comb - the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" | |
| Verb | 1. | comb - straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool" | |
| 2. | comb - search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" | |
| 3. | comb - smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"fluff, tease - ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect neaten, groom - care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed" | |