FINE-TOOTH COMB

Meaning of FINE-TOOTH COMB in English

noun Date: 1836 a comb with close-set teeth used especially for clearing parasites or foreign matter from the hair, an attitude or system of thorough searching or scrutinizing

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

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 — see fine-tooth comb
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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

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