| inglese > italiano | |
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| comb | |
| 1. sost. pettine | |
| 2. verb. pettinare | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| comb | |
| 1. subst. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. |  |
| 2. subst. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | |
| 3. subst. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. | |
| 4. subst. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. | |
| 5. subst. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. | |
| 6. subst. The top part of a gun’s stock. | |
| 7. subst. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. | |
| 8. subst. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached. | |
| 9. subst. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre. | |
| 10. subst. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. | |
| 11. subst. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. | |
| 12. subst. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. | |
| 13. subst. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions. | |
| 14. subst. The curling crest of a wave; a comber. | |
| 15. subst. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. | |
| 16. subst. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. | |
| 17. subst. (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 | |
| 18. v. (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. | |
| I need to comb my hair before we leave the house | |
| 19. v. To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | |
| 20. v. To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. | |
| Police combed the field for evidence after the assault | |
| 21. v. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. | |
| 22. subst. (abbreviation) Combination. | |
| 23. subst. alternative form of combe | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| pettine | |
| 1. subst. comb | |
| 2. subst. reed | |
