pettine — meaning in English
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English meaning
- card noun A small, flat piece of stiff paper or plastic, used for games, messages, payments, or identification.
- comb noun A flat toothed tool used for untangling, styling, or holding hair in place.
- pick verb To choose one thing from a number of options.
- reed noun A tall, slender grass-like plant that grows in wet ground or shallow water.
Senses
pettine is used for these senses in English:
- card (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- comb A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- pick A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- reed (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
card — full definition
- noun A small, flat piece of stiff paper or plastic, used for games, messages, payments, or identification.
- verb To check someone's identification to confirm their age.
comb — full definition
- noun A flat toothed tool used for untangling, styling, or holding hair in place.
- noun The fleshy red crest on top of a rooster's or hen's head.
- noun The structure of six-sided wax cells bees build to store honey and raise their young; a honeycomb.
- verb To groom hair or fur with a comb.
- verb To search an area thoroughly and systematically.