COMBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does combing mean? 

• COMBING (noun)
  The noun COMBING has 1 sense:

1. the act of drawing a comb through hair

  Familiarity information: COMBING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMBING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of drawing a comb through hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

comb; combing

Context example:

his hair needed a comb

Hypernyms ("combing" is a kind of...):

hair care; haircare; hairdressing (care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combing"):

comb-out; teasing (the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb)

Derivation:

comb (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)

comb (straighten with a comb)

 Context examples 

All round me were little ripples, combing over with a sharp, bristling sound and slightly phosphorescent.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And soon came a gale of wind, and carried away Curdken’s hat, and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and curling her hair.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On the looking-glass were lists of definitions and pronunciations; when shaving, or dressing, or combing his hair, he conned these lists over.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I sat down on the hatch-combing and rested my chin on my hands in black despair.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Over the past week, have you usually been slow or do you need help with washing, bathing, shaving, brushing teeth, combing your hair or with other personal hygiene?

(MDS-UPDRS - Hygiene, NCI Thesaurus)

Then there came a wind, so strong that it blew off Curdken’s hat; and away it flew over the hills: and he was forced to turn and run after it; till, by the time he came back, she had done combing and curling her hair, and had put it up again safe.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)