くじ — meaning in English

English meaning

• comb noun A flat toothed tool used for untangling, styling, or holding hair in place.
• lottery noun A game in which people buy numbered tickets and prizes are awarded to whichever numbers are drawn at random.

Senses

くじ is used for these senses in English:

• comb A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
• lottery A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.

comb — full definition

1. noun A flat toothed tool used for untangling, styling, or holding hair in place.
2. noun The fleshy red crest on top of a rooster's or hen's head.
3. noun The structure of six-sided wax cells bees build to store honey and raise their young; a honeycomb.
4. verb To groom hair or fur with a comb.
5. verb To search an area thoroughly and systematically.

lottery — full definition

1. noun A game in which people buy numbered tickets and prizes are awarded to whichever numbers are drawn at random.
2. noun Something whose outcome depends entirely on chance rather than effort or skill.

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