comb vs hunt

comb

verb
  • To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 

  • To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb. 

  • To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 

  • To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target. 

  • To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 

noun
  • A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. 

  • A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. 

  • A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth. 

  • A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. 

  • A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. 

  • The notched scale of a wire micrometer. 

  • An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. 

  • The curling crest of a wave; a comber. 

  • A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet. 

  • A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. 

  • One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate. 

  • The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. 

  • A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 

hunt

verb
  • To try to find something; search (for). 

  • To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel. 

  • To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting. 

  • To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. 

  • To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. 

  • To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. 

  • To shift up and down in order regularly. 

  • To use or traverse in pursuit of game. 

noun
  • A pack of hunting dogs. 

  • A hunting expedition. 

  • An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it. 

  • The act of hunting. 

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