Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Small pincers, usually of metal, used for plucking or handling small objects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An instrument, resembling diminutive tongs, for grasping and holding; intended for taking up very small objects, plucking out hairs, etc. Also called
volsella . - Same as
tweeze , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
pincerlike instrument , usually made ofmetal , used forhandling orpicking up small objects (such aspostage stamps ), plucking out (plucking ) hairs,pulling out slivers, etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One is called tweezers, an 'is of no earthly use that I know of except to pull the hairs out o' your nose, which no man in his senses ever wants to do; and the other thing is, I suppose, for borin 'small holes in things -- it's almost as useless.
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The second video--shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province--is from a news report broadcast on Dongfang Weishi, a satellite news station based in Shanghai, in which the newsreader actually refers to tweezers, not chopsticks.
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Even weirder, in January a Buffalo transit cop admitted to taking home items left behind at TSA checkpoints--such as tweezers, water bottles and nail clippers.
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This airport police officer, however, is said to have over 1,000 items, such as tweezers and nail clippers, at his home.
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Besides Arato's arrest on Monday for which he could face 15 years in prison, a Phoenix baggage handler was charged with stealing at least a thousand bags in September, and in January, a Buffalo TSA agent admitted to taking home confiscated items such as tweezers, water bottles and nail clippers--from security.
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In the late 1980s, the former dentist (Zargana means "tweezers") began his career as a comedian, appearing on Burmese television farcically detailing the failures of government.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Burma's Junta Doesn't See Humor in Zargana's Comedy
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Popularly known as Zarganar ( "tweezers" in Burmese), he also is considered Myanmar's Charlie Chaplin.
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Male burials contain weapons -- swords, lances, and javelins -- as well as some bronze personal items such as tweezers and razors.
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It also nixes trial-size containers, cosmetic applicators such as tweezers or eyelash curlers, and accessories like makeup bags,
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The Reading team found specific sequences of monomers in a copolyimide could be recognised by their interactions with additional molecules known as 'tweezers', which match the shape and electrical charge of sections of the sequence.
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