FINE TOOTH COMB

Meaning of FINE TOOTH COMB in English

see fine-tooth comb

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне. 2006

FINE-TOOTH COMB — noun Date: 1836 a comb with close-set teeth used especially for clearing parasites or foreign matter from the hair, an …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FINE-TOOTH-COMB — | ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: fine-tooth comb : to search or scrutinize intensively or minutely I fine-tooth-combed that patch of roadside, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — noun 1. : a comb with teeth set close together used especially for cleaning lice, nits, and other matter from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — /fuyn"toohth'/ 1. a comb having narrow, closely set teeth. 2. go over or through with a fine-tooth comb , to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — comb whose teeth are placed closely together
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FINE-TOOTH COMB — noun Date: 1836 1. : a comb with close-set teeth used especially for clearing parasites or foreign matter from the …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — Pronunciation: ' f ī n- ˌ tüth- Function: noun Date: 1836 1 : a comb with close-set teeth used especially …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — (also fine-toothed comb ) ■ noun (in phr. with a ~ ) with a very thorough search or analysis.
Concise Oxford English vocab
FINE-TOOTH COMB — [fine-tooth comb] n (1839) 1: a comb with close-set teeth used esp. for clearing parasites or foreign matter from the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FINE-TOOTH COMB — (also ˌfine-toothed ˈcomb ) noun a comb in which the pointed parts are thin and very close together • IDIOMS …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — ˌfine-tooth ˈcomb BrE AmE noun go through/over something with a fine-tooth comb to examine something very carefully and thoroughly: The …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FINE-TOOTH COMB — also fine tooth comb If you say that you will go over something with a fine-tooth comb or go through …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FINE TOOTH COMB — see fine-tooth comb
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FINE-TOOTH COMB — also fine tooth comb If you say that you will go over something with a ~ or go through something …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FINE-TOOTH COMB — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — {n. phr.} Great care; careful attention so as not to miss anything. * /The police searched the scene of the …
Slang English vocab
FINE-TOOTH-COMB — Function: verb Synonyms: SCOUR 2, beat, comb, finecomb, forage, grub, rake, ransack, rummage, search
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FINE-TOOTH-COMB — verb Synonyms: scour 2, beat, comb, finecomb, forage, grub, rake, ransack, rummage, search
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — {n. phr.} Great care; careful attention so as not to miss anything. * /The police searched the scene of the …
Словарь английских идиом
FINE-TOOTH COMB — great care, careful attention so as not to miss anything We went over the room with a fine-tooth comb but …
English Idioms vocab
FINE-TOOTH COMB — n. phr. Great care; careful attention so as not to miss anything. The police searched the scene of the crime …
American Idioms English vocabulary
FINE-TOOTH COMB — частый гребень
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FINE-TOOTH COMB — частый гребень
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
TOOTH — I. ˈtüth noun ( plural teeth ˈtēth) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English toth, tooth, from Old English tōth; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FINE — I. fine ˈfīn noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English fin, fine, from Old French fin, from Latin finis boundary, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COMB
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COMB — ( v. t. ) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
FINE — fine 1 /fuyn/ , adj., finer, finest , adv., v., fined, fining , n. adj. 1. of superior or best …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
COMB — comb 1 — combless , adj. — comblessness , n. /kohm/ , n. 1. a toothed strip of plastic, hard …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FINE — I. fine ˈfīn noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French fin, fine, from Latin finis boundary, end Date: 13th century 1. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COMB
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOOTH — noun ( plural teeth ˈtēth) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tōth; akin to Old High German zand tooth, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOOTH — noun fig.: taste; palate. 2. tooth ·vt to furnish with teeth. 3. tooth ·vt to lock into each other. ·see …
Webster English vocab
FINE — superl (used ironically.). 2. fine ·superl not coarse, gross, or heavy. 3. fine ·vi to pay a fine. ·see fine, …
Webster English vocab
COMB
Webster English vocab
FINE — [fine] n [ME, fr. OF fin, fr. L finis boundary, end] (13c) 1 obs: end, conclusion 2: a compromise of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FINE — I fine ordinary senses BrE AmE faɪn ▷ fined faɪnd ▷ finer ˈfaɪn ə AmE - ə r ▷ fines …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TOOTH
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FINE — / faɪn; NAmE / adjective , adverb , noun , verb ■ adjective ( finer , fin·est ) VERY GOOD …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COMB — / kəʊm; NAmE koʊm/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a flat piece of plastic or metal …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOOTH — tooth S2 W2 /tuːθ/ BrE AmE noun ( plural teeth /tiːθ/) [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: toth ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FINE — I. fine 1 S1 W1 /faɪn/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: French ; Origin: fin , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COMB — I. comb 1 /kəʊm $ koʊm/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: camb ] 1 . [countable] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TOOTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. teeth) 1 each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FINE — adj., n., adv., & v. --adj. 1 of high quality. 2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). b …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
COMB
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TOOTH — n. & v. n. (pl. teeth) 1 each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FINE — adj., n., adv., & v. adj. 1 of high quality. 2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). b …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
COMB
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TOOTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. teeth) 1. each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of …
Oxford English vocab
FINE — 1. adj., n., adv., & v. --adj. 1. of high quality. 2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). …
Oxford English vocab
COMB
Oxford English vocab
FINE — I. ADJECTIVE USES /faɪn/ ( finer, finest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOOTH — ( teeth) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your teeth are the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COMB — ( combs, combing, combed) 1. A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOOTH — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES armed to the teeth (= carrying a lot of weapons ) ▪ Many of the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FINE — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a beautiful/fine/sunny morning ▪ Outside it was a beautiful morning. a fine balance (= …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COMB — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brush/comb your hair ▪ He cleaned his teeth and brushed his hair. fine-tooth comb …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TOOTH — (MOUTH) [noun] [C] [plural] teeth - any of the hard white objects in the mouth, which are used for biting …
Cambridge English vocab
FINE — (PUNISHMENT) [noun] [C] - an amount of money that has to be paid as a punishment for not obeying a …
Cambridge English vocab
COMB — [verb] [T]If you comb your hair, you tidy it using a comb.She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.The …
Cambridge English vocab
TOOTH — Synonyms and related words : Vandyke, aftertaste, asperity, baby tooth, bicuspid, bitter, blaze, bucktooth, bumpiness, canine, chop, choppiness, coarsen, cog, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FINE — Synonyms and related words : Babylonian, Corinthian, OK, Roger, absolutely, abstruse, accomplished, accurate, acrid, acute, admirable, adulterated, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FINE — Fine as five pence. Fine as a cow-t--d stuck with primroses.FINE. A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of …
Slang English vocab

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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