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Meanings of pincer in inglés

portugués
pinça

A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping.

        pinça
        portugués
        puã
        catalán
        pinça

        A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.

              puã
              Sinónimos
              Examples for "tweezer"
              Examples for "tweezer"
              1
              Take a hot shower right before plucking your brows with a tweezer.
              The South African
              2
              In an optical tweezer, scientists create a laser beam with an electromagnetic field along its length.
              Wired
              3
              I personally have one the size of my fist with plasters, headache tablets, burn gel, a bandage, antiseptic, small scissors and a tweezer.
              The South African
              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.
              The Irish Times
              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.
              The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
              1
              One should work on it with a pair of pincers, he said.
              Reuters
              2
              Now, with a pair of pincers hold the ends, and using No.
              Woodcraft
              3
              And again advances the executioner, with a pair of pincers in his hand.
              The Daughter of an Empress
              4
              No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.
              Where Angels Fear to Tread
              5
              Send an angel with a pair of pincers to pull out these nails.'
              The Altar Steps
              1
              Owen reached out and took a pair of tweezers from the tray.
              Slow decay
              2
              That's when I came up with an idea and invented a pair of tweezers.
              The Guardian
              3
              Use a pair of tweezers to pick up the solder.
              The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
              4
              The doctor bent down over the table and picked up a pair of tweezers.
              Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
              5
              Grabbing a long pair of tweezers, I pulled bones until I had a small pile.
              Swamp Bones

              Pliers made of steel for removing nails from wood.

                    Usage of pincer in inglés
                    1
                    The ends of the lunettes had met, the pincer tips had closed.
                    The Metal Monster
                    2
                    The pincer was riding high on her neck, tilting her jaw back.
                    The Naked God
                    3
                    Its right pincer had been amputated, just like my right arm.
                    Forgiving ararat
                    4
                    His largest pincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
                    Wandl the Invader
                    5
                    Providing he ignored the sharp pincer sensation besetting his crotch at every motion.
                    The Naked God
                    6
                    The metal pincer produced a loud clang as it hit the metal table.
                    Mass Effect: Deception
                    7
                    Ninedenine stopped in front of Threepio, raising her pincer hands expansively.
                    Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
                    8
                    Oxas falls for it like a total dumbass and charges into a pincer.
                    Anathem
                    9
                    A crab-claw pincer gouged a hole through my sweatpants and into my leg.
                    Storm front
                    10
                    It looked like a pincer desperate to tear something out of his skull.
                    Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
                    11
                    The giant spider crab's skull still looms there, complete with 2-foot pincer claws.
                    The Irish Times
                    12
                    This halide-bridged metal dimer shows that coordination chemistry is possible with protein-modified pincer-metal complexes.
                    Pubmed
                    13
                    He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
                    Wandl the Invader
                    14
                    They cornered him in a pincer movement and one went for a rugby tackle.
                    The Guardian
                    15
                    He focuses intently, brow knit, as he pushes a pen with a pincer-like hand.
                    Rock and Ice Magazine
                    16
                    They were attempting to trap me in a pincer maneuver.
                    Fear nothing
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