to comb an area

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• Comb Wash, Utah — Comb Wash is a valley in southeastern Utah, in San Juan County. It runs from Elk Ridge in the north approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the south, where it merges with the San Juan River at an elevation of about 4200 feet (1280 m). The eastern edge …   Wikipedia

• Comb over — This variant of the comb over was patented in 1977. A comb over or combover is a hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area to minimize the display of baldness …   Wikipedia

• Comb Wash — Coordinates: 37°19′55″N 109°39′47″W / 37.332°N 109.663°W / 37.332; 109.663 …   Wikipedia

• Comb Ceramic culture — Pit Comb Ware culture redirects here. For the contemporary (ca. 3200 2300 BC) Scandinavian culture with a similar name see Pitted Ware culture. The Comb Ceramic Culture or Pit Comb Ware culture was a northeast European stone age culture. It… …   Wikipedia

• comb — comb1 [ koum ] noun * 1. ) count an object that you pull through your hair to make it neat, with a row of thin pointed parts called teeth a ) singular BRITISH the process of making your hair neat with a comb: He gave his hair a quick comb. 2. )… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• comb */ — I UK [kəʊm] / US [koʊm] noun Word forms comb : singular comb plural combs 1) a) [countable] an object that you pull through your hair to make it tidy, with a row of thin pointed parts called teeth b) [singular] British the process of making your… …   English dictionary

• comb — [kəʊm] noun [C] I an object with one row of thin pointed parts that you use to make your hair tidy II verb [T] comb [kəʊm] 1) to make your hair tidy with a comb 2) to search a place thoroughly Dozens of officers combed the area with search… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• comb — verb 1) she combed her hair Syn: groom, brush, untangle, smooth, straighten, neaten, tidy, arrange; curry 2) police combed the area Syn: search, scour, explore …   Thesaurus of popular words

• comb out —    to massacre    How the Germans described their treatment of Soviet citizens:     ... anti partisan operations resulted in the deaths of a quarter of a million Russian civilians as a given area was encircled and then combed out , a euphemism… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• comb — verb 1) she combed her hair Syn: groom, brush, untangle, smooth, straighten, neaten, tidy, arrange 2) police combed the area Syn: search, scour, explore …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• Brood comb — The brood comb is the beeswax structure of cells where the queen bee lays eggs. It is the part of the beehive where new brood is raised by the colony. During the summer a good queen may lay 1500 2000 eggs per day, which results in 1500 2000 bees… …   Wikipedia