(1) You might use the gripper to disassemble the device in the classic Hollywood movie cut-the-wire way; you might shoot high-pressure water into it, and you might do a controlled detonation.” That, Singer said, is why the department had explosives handy – sometimes the preferred way to deal with a bomb is to evacuate the area around it and use another bomb to blow it up.
(2) ferocity about – hold on to your hats, readers, this one's a gripper!
(3) When there’s a suspected explosive device, a suspected IED, you have this device with a robotic arm and a gripper on it,” Singer explained.
(4) The computer grippers have been successful in providing an easily operated, enjoyable, purposeful activity for end-stage grip strengthening for patients preparing to return to heavy industry.
(5) Scott's rich palette of building materials, meanwhile, was drawn as much from the salmon-pink bricks specially baked for the job by Mr Gripper of Nottingham as it was from the hues of churches that this intensely hard-working architect had once admired in northern Italy.
(6) "Do you think he uses those hand gripper exercise things so he can get a stronger hold on his opponent's shirt?
(7) For its day, it was groundbreaking: we did a story about racism, with Gripper Stebson, a bully who becomes a right-wing skinhead .
Pliers
Definition:
(n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(2) A cyclical load of 500 N was applied to the handles of the pliers, while a 0.9 mm (0.036 inch) round, stainless steel wire was held between the tips of the beaks.
(3) Orthodontists sterilized their instruments 66% of the time and pliers 49% of the time.
(4) In addition, transcutaneous adjustments of the spring now can be made without an incision using clasp-adjusting dental pliers.
(5) The major changes represented are greater use of protective barrier wear by doctor and staff members; increased heat sterilization methods for instruments, pliers, and handpieces; and increased disinfection of alginate impressions.
(6) He says they were removed with pliers while he was being questioned about his associates in Pakistan, the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London, and an alleged plot against the United States.
(7) A plier passed within an Amplatz jacket (previously introduced through the anus) assists the laparoscopic ureterosigmoidostomy "in elephant trunk" which is performed by sero-muscle suture using 3-zero reabsorbable single-strand material.
(8) The tractor driver told of regular interrogations, of forced confessions (for crimes he never knew he had committed); he spoke of knives and other people's severed fingers, of pliers and ropes and wires, of boiling water, cigarette burns and finger nails extracted – and worse: electric drills.
(9) A polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) solution is applied to one side of the film forming a flat disc when frozen with a pair of pliers precooled in liquid nitrogen.
(10) In the present study this technique was used to determine the hardening effect of ion implantation on the beaks of stainless steel orthodontic pliers.
(11) There were only three techniques described that do not require drilling a hole, cutting a notch or slot, clamping with claws or jaws, prying with instruments, or grasping with forceps and pliers.
(12) Then, the choice of the instrumentation (needle-holders, pliers and scissors) will be discussed.
(13) The few minutes required to alter one of these instruments will be more than repaid in time saved while attempting to place amalgam with a conventional carrier or cotton pliers.
(14) (2) Bond failure at the bracket-adhesive interface occurred with significantly greater frequency for the Starfire brackets when debonding was performed with the electrothermal instrument and with significantly less frequency when the debonding pliers were used.
(15) Ahmed said one of the ISI interrogators sat on the floor beside him and pushed the jaws of the pliers under the left side of his small fingernail before slowly prising the side of the nail upwards.
(16) Before examination the exterior part of the spring at the orbital edge was cut off with cutting pliers.
(17) The connector failures occurred early in the series before the development of connector pliers; there have been no connector failures in the last 202 consecutive implantations.
(18) Changes observed in the group made by orthodontic pliers lacked in the group bended by the machine.
(19) Removal of ceramic orthodontic brackets, utilizing orthodontic pliers, has resulted in significant patient discomfort, enamel trauma and bracket shattering.
(20) Ten orthodontic pliers (Dentarum 003 094) were divided into two equal groups, designated control and experimental.