comb
comb /k'oʊm/ (combs combing combed)
1 [N-COUNT]
A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When you comb your hair, you tidy it using a comb.
Salvatore combed his hair carefully...
Her reddish hair was cut short and neatly combed.
3 [VERB] V n for n, V n
If you comb a place, you search everywhere in it in order to find someone or something.
Officers combed the woods for the murder weapon...
They fanned out and carefully combed the temple grounds.
4 [VERB] V through n
If you comb through information, you look at it very carefully in order to find something.
Eight policemen then spent two years combing through the evidence.
5
see also fine-tooth combfine-tooth comb
also fine tooth comb
[PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that you will go over something with a fine-tooth comb or go through something with a fine-tooth comb, you are emphasizing that you will search it thoroughly or examine it very carefully.
1 [N-COUNT]
A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When you comb your hair, you tidy it using a comb.
Salvatore combed his hair carefully...
Her reddish hair was cut short and neatly combed.
3 [VERB] V n for n, V n
If you comb a place, you search everywhere in it in order to find someone or something.
Officers combed the woods for the murder weapon...
They fanned out and carefully combed the temple grounds.
4 [VERB] V through n
If you comb through information, you look at it very carefully in order to find something.
Eight policemen then spent two years combing through the evidence.
5
see also fine-tooth combfine-tooth comb
also fine tooth comb
[PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that you will go over something with a fine-tooth comb or go through something with a fine-tooth comb, you are emphasizing that you will search it thoroughly or examine it very carefully.