COMB

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comb¹ I. substantiv

1. pieptene;

dressing comb pieptene de toaletă;

large / tooth(ed) comb pieptene rar;

pocket comb pieptene de buzunar;

small-toothed comb pieptene des.

2. ţesală.

3. darac, pieptene.

4. creastă (de cocoş), moţ.

5. (text.) spată; ac, spin, ghimpe, ţeapă.

6. (şi honeycomb) fagure.

7. coama / creştetul acoperişului.

8. creastă, moţ (ca frizură), streaşină.

9. creasta unui val.

10. creastă, coamă, spinare (a unui deal).

11. (electr.) colector, perie, periuţă, peri colectori (la dinam etc.)

12. gâtul patului (la arma de foc).

◊ (fig.) to cut the comb of a tăia nasul (cuiva), a descuraja, a întrista;

to set up one’s comb a face pe grozavul / teribilul / nebunul, a se umfla în pene.

comb¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a pieptăna, a ţesăla;

(fig.) to comb smb.’s hair for him a trage cuiva un perdaf, o săpuneală, a spăla, a săpuni, a freca, a face cu ou şi cu oţet pe cineva, a lua pe cineva la trei păzeşte;

to comb smb.’s hair the wrong way a lua pe cineva în răspăr.

2. (mil.) a curăţa terenul de duşmani.

3. a percheziţiona, a cerceta, a întoarce cu susul în jos.

4. (text.) a dărăci, a carda; a bate, a destrăma.

5. a ţesăla; (glumeţ) a bate, a ciomăgi, a dărăci, a tărbăci, a bumbăci.

6. (fam.) (adesea şi to comb down) a ocărî, a certa, a face cu ou şi cu oţet, a lua la trei păzeşte, a săpuni, a freca, a lua la rost.

7. to comb out a) a pieptăna; b) (mil.) a face o revizie a soldaţilor lăsaţi mai devreme la vatră, a tria, a purica; c) a epura; a comprima, a concedia.

comb¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

(despre talazuri, valuri) a se sparge.

comb² substantiv, vezi coomb.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then the queen said, “Only look at my beautiful combs!” and gave her the poisoned one.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Have you a pocket-comb about you, sir?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I thought it was better to borrow Captain Hopkins's knife and fork, than Captain Hopkins's comb.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the pallisados before your majesty’s court: wherewith we conjecture the man-mountain combs his head; for we did not always trouble him with questions, because we found it a great difficulty to make him understand us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

But by good luck the dwarfs came in very early that evening; and when they saw Snowdrop lying on the ground, they thought what had happened, and soon found the poisoned comb.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

There were the means of washing in the room, and a comb and brush to smooth my hair.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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