镊
tweezers; to pick up with tweezers
Meanings
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tweezers; forceps
A small handheld tool with two hinged arms for gripping small objects.
The doctor used tweezers to remove the foreign object from the wound.
The makeup artist used tweezers to stick false eyelashes onto the eyelids.
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Tweezers are commonly used in laboratories to pick up chemical reagents.
The gardener used tweezers to transplant tiny succulent seedlings.
You can use tweezers to pluck stray eyebrows when shaping your brows.
verb
to grip with tweezers; to pick up with tweezers
Always followed by the object being gripped, often used in medical, laboratory, or craft contexts.
Please use tweezers to take out the alcohol cotton ball from the bottle.
The nurse used tweezers to pick up a disinfectant wipe to clean the wound.
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He used tweezers to grab the fallen earring from the floor gap and retrieve it.
Handicraft lovers use tweezers to pick up tiny beads to make necklaces.
In biology class, the teacher asked us to use tweezers to take onion epidermal cells.