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Meanings of pincer in English
Portuguese
pinça A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping.
Synonyms
Examples for "tweezer"
Examples for "tweezer"
1
Take a hot shower right before plucking your brows with a tweezer.
2
In an optical tweezer, scientists create a laser beam with an electromagnetic field along its length.
3
I personally have one the size of my fist with plasters, headache tablets, burn gel, a bandage, antiseptic, small scissors and a tweezer.
4
Or you can pipe and swirl and tweezer the elements onto a china plate and eat it with a dainty fork under a pergola.
5
The tweezer cop joined Jackson Scythe at the desk, plucked up a few hairs, and put them into a plastic bag before walking out.
1
One should work on it with a pair of pincers, he said.
2
Now, with a pair of pincers hold the ends, and using No.
3
And again advances the executioner, with a pair of pincers in his hand.
4
No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.
5
Send an angel with a pair of pincers to pull out these nails.'
1
Owen reached out and took a pair of tweezers from the tray.
2
That's when I came up with an idea and invented a pair of tweezers.
3
Use a pair of tweezers to pick up the solder.
4
The doctor bent down over the table and picked up a pair of tweezers.
5
Grabbing a long pair of tweezers, I pulled bones until I had a small pile.
Usage of pincer in English
1
The ends of the lunettes had met, the pincer tips had closed.
2
The pincer was riding high on her neck, tilting her jaw back.
3
Its right pincer had been amputated, just like my right arm.
4
His largest pincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
5
Providing he ignored the sharp pincer sensation besetting his crotch at every motion.
6
The metal pincer produced a loud clang as it hit the metal table.
7
Ninedenine stopped in front of Threepio, raising her pincer hands expansively.
8
Oxas falls for it like a total dumbass and charges into a pincer.
9
A crab-claw pincer gouged a hole through my sweatpants and into my leg.
10
It looked like a pincer desperate to tear something out of his skull.
11
The giant spider crab's skull still looms there, complete with 2-foot pincer claws.
12
This halide-bridged metal dimer shows that coordination chemistry is possible with protein-modified pincer-metal complexes.
13
He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
14
They cornered him in a pincer movement and one went for a rugby tackle.
15
He focuses intently, brow knit, as he pushes a pen with a pincer-like hand.
16
They were attempting to trap me in a pincer maneuver.
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