(n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
(n.) A long, curling wave.
(v. t.) To cumber.
(n.) Encumbrance.
(n.) The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were detained a short distance from where McGuigan was gunned down in front of his wife at their home in Comber Court.
(2) A female British soldier and a Royal Marine who died in an exchange of gunfire with a member of the Afghan police while on patrol in Helmand have been named as Channing Day, 25, from Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, and Corporal David O'Connor.
(3) Around 9pm on 12 August, as McGuigan was pulling up in his car with his wife at their home in Comber Court, two men clad in dark clothing ambushed him.
(4) Nesbitt said: "It was with great regret and much sadness that I learned last night of the tragic death of a young woman from Comber who died in the service of her country alongside a colleague from the Royal Marines in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
(5) MFO enzyme activities were measured in microsomes from whole mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) comber livers (Serranus cabrilla), or Posidonia oceanica etiolated tissues, and PAH contents were determined in sediments collected in coastal locations of the French Riviera and Corsica during 3 oceanographic cruises in 1987-1988.
(6) The Ulster Unionist party leader, Mike Nesbitt, paid tribute to the soldier from Comber and expressed sympathy for her family.
(7) The G8 menu As tweeted by David Cameron Kilkeel Crab, Prawn and Avocado Roast fillet and braised shin of Kettyle beef, violet artichokes, Comber new potatoes plus seasonal vegetables Apple crumble, with Bushmills whiskey custard and a selection of cheeses from the British Isles.
Comer
Definition:
(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Reservations are necessary during high season: they welcome everyone, but late comers can end up sleeping on the floor.
(4) Aortic intimal rhythmic structures were significantly more frequently detected in the aborigines than in those born in the North and new comers.
(5) Late comers were more likely to report a number of delaying factors or to have financial worries.
(6) When another corner, at the other end, was curled in by Mónica Ocampo it eluded all-comers before grazing the bar.
(7) Broecker then introduced the pair to his great friend, the late mail-order clothing tycoon Gary Comer.
(8) Thursday’s game between USA and Germany, for example, will be a clash of a legitimate soccer dynasty versus a legitimate up-and-comer.
(9) Even though it spent millions designing Android, Google made the software available to all comers at no charge.
(10) In the office, wedged between the two main studios, I sit down with three of Oguns' up and comers.
(11) In those untreated "new-comers" therapeutical effect comes earlier than in cases of premedication.
(12) So did Attlee.” Blunkett did the rounds: the combative former education and employment secretary, the take-on-all-comers home secretary, says he has done his time.
(13) We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers.
(14) Retrospective and prospective studies of a total sample of 232 attenders at groups of Gamblers Anonymous suggest that total abstinence from gambling was maintained by 8% of all comers at one year from first attendance and by 7% at two years.
(15) The contest, which is open to all comers, takes place in one of the flooded quarries every September.
(16) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(17) Leicester did save some face with their second-half performance, featuring a splendid goal from the substitute Demarai Gray, but they barely looked recognisable from the side that were taking on all-comers not so long ago and it was a jarring reflection of their deterioration that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two players who shared last season’s individual awards, were substituted at half-time.
(18) As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.
(19) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(20) Oddly, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , so effective every week in taking on all comers in his LBC phone-in programme Call Clegg, took two questions from supporters and only one from the irritated lobby correspondents .