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词汇 comber
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comber1

noun ˈkəʊməˈkoʊmər
  • 1A long curling sea wave.

    卷浪

    the combers, glassy blue-green, moved slowly in
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.
    • Then a heavy comber shook my plane violently, tossing me from the cockpit into the water.
    Synonyms
    wave, breaker, roller, billow
  • 2A person or machine that prepares cotton or wool for manufacture by separating and straightening the fibres.

    梳刷者;精梳机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
    • What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers.

Rhymes

aroma, carcinoma, chroma, coma, diploma, glaucoma, Homer, lymphoma, melanoma, misnomer, Oklahoma, Omagh, roamer, Roma, romer, sarcoma, soma

comber2

noun ˈkɒmbəˈkɑmbər
  • A small fish that gapes when dead, occurring in shallow waters from the western English Channel to the Mediterranean.

    同心鮨。亦称GAPER

    Serranus cabrilla, family Serranidae

    Also called gaper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was interesting to observe how his copious nosebleed excited the fish, which came tumbling in to find out what was going on - the grouper, always inquisitive anyway, bream, combers and damselfish.
    • On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off.

Origin

Mid 18th century: of unknown origin.

comber1

nounˈkoʊmərˈkōmər
  • 1A long curling sea wave.

    卷浪

    the combers, glassy blue-green, moved slowly in
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then a heavy comber shook my plane violently, tossing me from the cockpit into the water.
    • I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.
    Synonyms
    wave, breaker, roller, billow
  • 2A person or machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers (about three hundred in all) were female.
    • What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers.

comber2

nounˈkämbərˈkɑmbər
  • A small fish that gapes when dead, occurring in shallow waters from the western English Channel to the Mediterranean.

    同心鮨。亦称GAPER

    Serranus cabrilla, family Serranidae

    Also called gaper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was interesting to observe how his copious nosebleed excited the fish, which came tumbling in to find out what was going on - the grouper, always inquisitive anyway, bream, combers and damselfish.
    • On rocky rummages in the shallows you might spy damsel fish, red mullet, painted combers and rainbow wrasse before they dart off.

Origin

Mid 18th century: of unknown origin.

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