Thin vs Comb - What's the difference?
thin | comb |
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
* Addison
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
* Dryden
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
* Francis Bacon
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
*1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), ,
*:But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a .
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
(nautical) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
As a proper noun thin
is the fifth earthly branch represented by the.As a noun comb is
a toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place or comb can be (abbreviation) combination.As a verb comb is
(especially of hair or fur) to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a.thin
English
Adjective
(thinner)- thin plate of metal
- thin paper
- thin board
- thin covering
- thin wire
- thin string
- thin person
- The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- a thin disguise
Synonyms
* reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See alsoAntonyms
* thickDerived terms
* into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thinNoun
(en noun)- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Verb
Derived terms
* thin outAdverb
(en adverb)- seed sown thin
- Spain is thin sown of people.
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* 1000 English basic words ----comb
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