tweezer
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈtwiːzər/
:
pinza
- She carefully used the tweezers to place the fragile model part in position.
- using tweezers
You then get your bond in clear and black, and you get your tweezer to apply them and fuse them.
- You then get your bond in clear and black, and you get your tweezer to apply them and fuse them.
- And it is the pink double tweezer Tweezerman set.
- This looks like oh, it's this it's it's the a similar type of tweezer, but without a lock.
- OK, let's see you guys, not even the tweezer, not even the tweezer, it's the deco.
Examples
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Letson removed the tiny fragment with tweezers and placed a Band-Aid over the scratch.
Blog text (31) -
After Lara showers, she sees a hair on her chin which she plucks with a tweezer.
Fiction book (1994) -
Give me the tweezers, please.
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Do you have any tweezers?
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Becton handed me metal tweezers that he kept handy in his breast pocket.
Fiction book (1995) -
I stepped on a bee two Saturdays ago and needed tweezers to pull the stinger out.
Blog text (23) -
Working with tweezers and a microscope, Lentz has found remains of squash and corn from soil samples.
Academic text (2009) -
Use the tweezers to grab the small splinter from your finger.
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For precision, he always kept a pair of tweezers in his toolbox for handling tiny components.
Synonyms
3
5.8
A hand tool with two handles and curved jaws for gripping or cutting things like nails
3
2.8
Small tool with two thin arms used to pick up small things
A small metal tool with two thin arms to pick up very small things
A tool with two joined arms used to hold or pull things
A small tool with two long metal arms joined at one end used to hold, bend, or cut things
How Precise
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tweezer feels like it comes from two, and that is a useful image: it has two thin arms you pinch together. So a tweezer is a small tool to 'pick up' or 'hold' very small things.