Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tweezers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use tweezers.
- To extract with or as with tweezers.
- noun The American merganser. Also called
weaser .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or relating to,
tweezers . - noun US A pair of tweezers,
tweezers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
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Examples
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Of course, the idea is ridiculous -- that is, the tweezer part is.
Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957
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I have seen an Indian beau, with a looking-glass in his hand, examining his face for hours together, and plucking out by the roots every hair he could discover, with a kind of tweezer made of a piece of fine brass wire, that had been twisted round a stick, and which he used with great dexterity. — 'They have no ardour for their female.'
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Additionally, the coating of TNF-alpha gives the nanowire a negative charge, making the wire easier to maneuver via the two perpendicular electrical fields of the "tweezer" device, a technique developed by Donglei Fan as part of her Johns Hopkins doctoral research in materials science and engineering.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Additionally, the coating of TNF-alpha gives the nanowire a negative charge, making the wire easier to maneuver via the two perpendicular electrical fields of the "tweezer" device, a technique developed by Donglei Fan as part of her Johns Hopkins doctoral research in materials science and engineering.
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Even the annealing/denaturing cycles of complementary DNA strands with the aid of small complementary oligonucleotides is considered a kind of "tweezer" machine by investigators.
MRZine.org 2009
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I have seen an Indian beau, with a looking glass in his hand, examining his face for hours together, and plucking out by the roots every hair he could discover, with a kind of tweezer made of a piece of fine brass wire, that had been twisted round a stick, and which he used with great dexterity. "
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And this is how it looks like if you pluck with tweezer ...
Just so you know... Jerine 2009
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"Eyebrows are your most powerful accessory!" proclaims Anastasia Soare, tweezer guru to celebrities like Madonna, Oprah and Debra Messing.
Amy Tara Koch: The Mommy Field Trip: 48 (Offspring-Free) Hours In LA Amy Tara Koch 2012
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"Eyebrows are your most powerful accessory!" proclaims Anastasia Soare, tweezer guru to celebrities like Madonna, Oprah and Debra Messing.
Amy Tara Koch: The Mommy Field Trip: 48 (Offspring-Free) Hours In LA Amy Tara Koch 2012
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He insists tweezers aren't necessary: "We don't have a tweezer in our kitchen."
Secrets of the Master of the Mini Marshall Heyman 2011
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