tweezers
11tweezers — [17] French étui denotes a small case for carrying personal articles, small tools and the like (it was descended from Old French estuier ‘keep, shut up, imprison’). English adopted it in the early 17th century as etui or, anglicized, as etwee.… …
12tweezers — plural noun (also a pair of tweezers) a small instrument like a pair of pincers for plucking out hairs and picking up small objects. Origin C17: extended form of obs. tweeze case of surgical instruments , shortening of etweese, anglicized plural… …
13tweezers — noun (plural) a small tool that has two narrow pieces of metal joined at one end, used to pull or move very small objects: plucking her eyebrows with a pair of tweezers …
14tweezers — UK [ˈtwiːzə(r)z] / US [ˈtwɪzərz] noun [plural] a tool that you use for picking up or removing very small objects. It consists of two narrow pieces of metal joined at one end She was plucking her eyebrows with tweezers …
15tweezers — [17] French étui denotes a small case for carrying personal articles, small tools and the like (it was descended from Old French estuier ‘keep, shut up, imprison’). English adopted it in the early 17th century as etui or, anglicized, as etwee.… …
16tweezers — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: obsolete English tweeze, noun, etui, short for obsolete English etweese, from plural of obsolete English etwee, from French étui Date: 1654 any of various small metal instruments that… …
17tweezers — /twee zeuhrz/, n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) small pincers or nippers for plucking out hairs, extracting splinters, picking up small objects, etc. [1645 55; pl. of tweezer, equiv. to obs. tweeze case of surgical instruments (aph. form of… …
18tweezers — An instrument with pincers that are squeezed together to grasp or extract fine structures. [A.S. twisel, fork] * * * twee·zers twē zərz n pl but sing or pl in constr any of various small metal instruments that are usu. held between the thumb and… …
19Tweezers — Пинцет (для исправления ошибок в шрифтовой форме) …
20tweezers — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. forceps, nippers, tongs; see pincers . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. nippers, pincers, forceps, tongs …
