Burring machine
() A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. |
Comb
(n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
Comb
(n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats |
Comb
(n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. |
Comb
(n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
Comb
(n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
Comb
(n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe |
Comb
(n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
Comb
(n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. |
Comb
(n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. |
Comb
(n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. |
Comb
(n.) The curling crest of a wave. |
Comb
(n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc. |
Comb
(n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. |
Comb
(v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb |
Comb
(n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave |
Comb
(n.) Alt. of Combe |
Comb
(n.) A dry measure. See Coomb. |
Comb-shaped
(a.) Pectinate. |
Gramme machine
() A kind of dynamo-electric machine |
Guess warp
() A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along |
Knitting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knit |
Knitting
(n.) The work of a knitter |
Knitting
(n.) Union formed by knitting, as of bones. |
Lady's comb
() An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. |
Machine
(n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc. |
Machine
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy |
Machine
(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. |
Machine
(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use |
Machine
(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. |
Machine
(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. |
Machine
(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery |
Trace
(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn |
Trace
(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing |
Trace
(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis |
Trace
(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists |
Trace
(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. |
Trace
(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works. |
Trace
(v. t.) To mark out |
Trace
(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded |
Trace
(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of. |
Trace
(v. t.) To copy |
Trace
(v. t.) To walk over |
Trace
(v. i.) To walk |
Warp
(v. t.) To throw |
Warp
(v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape |
Warp
(v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction |
Warp
(v. t.) To weave |
Warp
(v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. |
Warp
(v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young |
| comb-out | the act of carefully weeding out unwanted things or people, the department got a good comb-out |
fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
comb
combing | the act of drawing a comb through hair, his hair needed a comb |
comb-out
teasing | the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb |
| knitting | creating knitted wear |
comb-footed spider
theridiid | spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot |
comb cockscomb
coxcomb | the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds |
ctene
comb-plate | a locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused |
ctenophore
comb jelly | biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb |
| comb | ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore |
adding machine
totalizer
totaliser | a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions |
addressing machine
Addressograph | a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing |
| answering machine | an electronic device that answers the telephone and records messages |
automatic rifle
automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
| bathhouse bathing machine | a building containing dressing rooms for bathers |
breathing device
breathing apparatus
breathing machine
ventilator | a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure |
Browning machine gun
Peacemaker | a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than rounds per minute, used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War |
burp gun
machine pistol | a fully automatic pistol, a small submachine gun |
calculator
calculating machine | a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations |
car
auto
automobile
machine motorcar | a motor vehicle with four wheels, usually propelled by an internal combustion engine, he needs a car to get to work |
cash machine
cash dispenser
automated teller machine
automatic teller machine
automated teller
automatic teller
ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
| comb | a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge, disentangles or arranges hair |
| comb | any of several tools for straightening fibers |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
dialyzer
dialysis machine | a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes |
| diathermy machine | a medical instrument for local heating of bodily tissues for medical purposes |
dishwasher
dish washer
dishwashing machine | a machine for washing dishes |
electrostatic generator
electrostatic machine
Wimshurst machine
Van de Graaff generator | electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity |
explosive trace detection
ETD | a system for screening luggage in airports, an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives |
facsimile
facsimile machine
fax | duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio |
| farm machine | a machine used in farming |
fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
| franking machine | a machine that automatically stamps letters or packages passing through it and computes the total charge |
| fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
| high-warp loom | a handloom in which the warp is carried vertically, for weaving tapestry |
hovercraft
ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
| ice machine | an electric refrigerator to supply ice cubes |
knit
knitting
knitwork | needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine |
| knitting machine | a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics |
| knitting needle | needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends, usually used in pairs |
| knitting stitch | a stitch taken in knitting |
| light machine gun | a submachine gun not greater than . millimeter |
Linotype
Linotype machine | a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal |
lithograph
lithograph machine | duplicator that prints by lithography, a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern |
| low-warp-loom | a handloom in which the warp is carried horizontally, for weaving tapestry |
| machine | any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks |
| machine simple machine | a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |
| machine bolt | a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end, tightened with a wrench, used to connect metal parts |
| machine gun | a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted) |