combとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: kōm, IPA^(key): /kəʊm/
• (米国用法) enPR: kōm, IPA^(key): /koʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm

名詞

comb (複数形 combs)

A comb for the hair.

1. A toothed implement:
   1. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
      • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

        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. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
   3. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
   4. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
   5. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
   6. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
   7. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
   8. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
   9. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
2. A crest:
   1. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
   2. (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
      • 1888, United Service Institution of India, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, page 197:

        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  […]

      • 1898, John Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 44:

        The armet has usually a low central cabled comb with parallel flutes on either side, occasionally there are three or five combs.

      • 1909, Albert Frederick Calvert, Madrid: An Historical Description and Handbook of the Spanish Capital, page 82:

        The combs or elbow pieces are beautifully made, and over the right armpit is […]

      • 2021, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, Good Press

        Charles I. (Edinburgh Castle) The Pikeman of the time of James I. was accoutred in a morion-shaped helmet with a comb of moderate size and a flat brim,  […]

   3. The top part of a gun’s stock.
3. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
   • 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 9:

     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.

4. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
5. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
6. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England‎^[1], volume 4, page 207:

     But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.

7. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
8. (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.

同意語

• (skin on head of birds): cockscomb, crest

関連する語

• kemb
• kempt
• unkempt

等位語

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle

派生語

等位語

• orling

動詞

comb (三人称単数 現在形 combs, 現在分詞 combing, 過去形および過去分詞形 combed)

1. (transitive, especially of hair または fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.

   I need to comb my hair before we leave the house

2. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

   Police combed the field for evidence after the assault

4. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
5. (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel into (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
   • 2010, Jim Crossley, Bismarck: The Epic Chase

     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.

   • 2013, Steve Backer, British Battlecruisers of the Second World War (page 10)

     Sixteen torpedo bombers divided their attention between the two ships. Repulse combed the torpedo wakes and knocked down two of the attackers.

語源 2

From combination.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /kɒmb/

名詞

comb (複数形 combs)

1. (abbreviation, rare) Combination. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: combo

発音

• IPA^(key): /kuːm/

名詞

comb (複数形 combs)

1. Alternative form of combe

アナグラム

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