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"COMBS" is a plural of: comb. |
Date "COMBS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A complete assembly of comb leads. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COMBS |
| English words defined with "COMBS": Bee glue ♦ Comber ♦ Pectinated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COMBS": BOW MAKER, BOW REHAIRER, BRUSH MAKER, MACHINE ♦ COMB-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ dispensary attendant, DOG BATHER, dog beautician, DOG GROOMER, dog-hair clipper ♦ ELECTROGALVANIZING-MACHINE OPERATOR, embalmer assistant ♦ funeral-home attendant, FUR GLAZER, fur glosser, fur ironer, FUR-GLAZING-AND-POLISHING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ GASSER, greater wax moth ♦ Hair, hair blender, hair mixer, HAIR PREPARER, HAIR-SAMPLE MATCHER, honey comb ♦ INSPECTOR-REPAIRER ♦ jack bar ♦ KNIFE SETTER, knotting-machine operator, portable, knot-tying operator ♦ MANNEQUIN WIG MAKER, MORTUARY BEAUTICIAN ♦ NURSE, PRACTICAL ♦ PAINT-ROLLER COVERMAKER, POINTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ rug scratcher ♦ SUPPLY CLERK, Symbols of Saints ♦ thread singer, tying-in-machine operator ♦ warp-tying-machine knotter, WARP-TYING-MACHINE TENDER, WIG DRESSER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Honey Combs viewed from Leslie Gulch. Credit: Unknown. |  | Honey Combs Wilderness Study Area. OR 3-77A. Credit: Unknown. |
 | High Steens Wilderness Study Area looking into Big Indian Gorge from South Loop Road near Rooster Combs. OR 2-85F. Credit: Unknown. |  | Peasant women heading rice with steel combs in the fields on Suruga Bay, Japan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | By using infested combs, brushes, or towels. (references) | |
Do not share infested combs, brushes, or towels. (references) | ||
Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COMBS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.68% of the time. "COMBS" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 80.68% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.36% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.95% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COMBS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Combs | Last name | 21,000 | 543 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Combs, AR 2. Combs, KY |
Expression using "COMBS": Mc Combs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "COMBS": combs-and-paper. | |
Ending with "COMBS": curry-combs, hair-combs, wool-combs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kombinezon. (various references) | |
Chinese | 梳子 (Comb, comb-out). (various references) | |
Danish | nålefastgørelsen. (various references) | |
Dutch | kammen (comb). (various references) | |
French | peignes. (various references) | |
German | Kämme. (various references) | |
Greek | εξαγωνικά κελιά των κερηθρών των κυψελών (hexagonal cells of the combs in the hives). (various references) | |
Italian | monatatura di aghi. (various references) | |
Korean | 빗 (Comb). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pentes. (various references) | |
Spanish | peines. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "COMBS": beachcombs, catacombs, cockscombs, coxcombs, currycombs, honeycombs, recombs. (additional references) | |
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"COMBS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cambes, Cambus, chomb, Chomba, cmos, cobbs, Comba, combi, comby, comiss, Commg, commrs, comms, comrs, coms, comus, coombi, coombs, Coumba, cumb, Mccombs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COMBS" (pronounced kō"mz) |
| 4 | k ō" m z | Combes. |
| 3 | -ō" m z | biomes, domes, foams, gnomes, homes, ohms, roams, tomes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cobs, comb, mobs, mocs. | |
-2 letters: bos, cob, cos, mob, moc, mos, oms, sob, som. | |
-3 letters: bo, mo, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: combes, combos, coombs. | |
+2 letters: becomes, bemocks, combats, combers, combust, coombes, corymbs, crambos, mobcaps, recombs, tombacs. | |
+3 letters: backmost, cabombas, cembalos, combines, combings, combusts, coulombs, coxcombs, cramboes, cumbrous, microbes, microbus, mossback, symbolic, tombacks. | |
+4 letters: backrooms, beclamors, becomings, bionomics, bombastic, bombycids, buncombes, cambogias, catacombs, chemisorb, choriambs, cimbaloms, clubrooms, cockscomb, combaters, combiners, combusted, combustor, comebacks, comembers, corymbose, crossbeam, cymbaloms, hecatombs, maccaboys, maccoboys, microbars, misbecome, mobocrats, monobasic, mossbacks, outclimbs, scombroid, shambolic, subatomic, submicron, submucosa, symbiotic. | |
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