What's the difference between pincers and pinchers?
Pincers
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(2) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
(3) The hypophysis was ablated by catching its rostral end with a pincer.
(4) This was consistently shown in all modalities of assessments which included patients' assessments (P < 0.001) and investigator's assessments (P < 0.001) of the percentage change in nodule size, and gross measurements of nodule volumes using a pincer (P < 0.001).
(5) To our knowledge, this is the first report of a method of stretching the interdigital skin of syndactyly by means of a pincer.
(6) Opposition factions north of Aleppo have been increasingly stuck “between the pincers” of YPG forces on one side and pro-government fighters on the other, a military source said.
(7) "News Corp always worked a double pincer, offering fear and favour.
(8) In two patients with total loss of all digits, pincer pinch was restored by the transfer of two separate toes, one to each side of the stump.
(9) Murphy said Scotland could be “caught in a pincer movement between the leader of the SNP and new leader of the Tory party”.
(10) In the heat of battle, Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters turn on one another, fighting their age-old war, though both are supposed to be fighting a common enemy, Islamic State (Isis), advancing on the battered, tortured civilians of Aleppo and other Syrian and Kurdish communities in a murderous pincer movement.
(11) With GCSE English, we're still at the draft stage, but we can already see that there is a pincer movement going on.
(12) Nine patients who had suffered mutilating injuries of the hand with preservation of only one digit and loss of the others at metacarpal level have been treated by transfer of the second toe onto a metacarpal stump to restore pincer grip.
(13) The use of titanium alloys is recommended for making bone-joining members, retracting medical instruments, of the spatula and speculum types, some kinds of non-magnetic pincers and ultrasonic medical instruments.
(14) PINCERS may also be used to assist in planning the synthesis of mixed-probe DNA sequences for cross-hybridization experiments.
(15) Scores of reporters have been killed – often tortured and decapitated – in what is now seen as a pincer-movement against their work by drug cartels and the state.
(16) The greater the extent of pyramidal tract destruction, the longer the time necessary for recovery of both discrete finger movement and pincer grasp, the greater the effort needed to attain recovery of hand function, and the weaker the affected musculature.
(17) Dentin thickness was measured using a pincer caliper.
(18) In the inflammatory mycoses the author recommends an oral treatment consisting in griseofulvin, and, in case of severe inflammation, prednisone per os at the same time with a local treatment (painting with alcohol iodate 1%, followed by the application of a cream with cortisone associated with an antimicrobial antibiotic and pincer epilation).
(19) A goalless first half had been a triumph, not as it turned out, for Argentina’s golden flea, but for Queiroz’s pincer-like squeeze.
(20) A problem needing investigation is the principle of cardiomyoplasty (CMP) itself, as the muscle acts more as a lift than as pincers.
Pinchers
Definition:
(n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The instrument is designed based on electromagnetic theory and principle of equilibrium in mechanics and composed of a timer, a current regulator and meter, control circuits and two-arm pinchers.
(2) The spicules of the male had a highly sculptured surface with a pincher-like terminal end.
(3) The most striking features in the production of the "pincher mechanism" of the duodenum were found to be a short aortomesenteric distance together with sagittal parallelism between aorta and superior mesenteric artery.
(4) Similar 'selectivity' could be demonstrated for both mu- and kappa-ligands when the weaker and stronger responses were of the same modality, being applied by the same pincher device but with alternating applied force.
(5) Complications included 2 hematomas of the tubal wall, caused by the pinchers but controlled with the ring and 1 later case of cellulitis at the incision.
(6) Penny-pincher-in-chief Francis Maude would have the whole of Whitehall working this way.
(7) PMQs verdict: Jeremy Corbyn's leaked texts give him the upper hand Read more Over recent years I have admired David Hodge’s fearless crescendo of complaint against his own government, with caustic comments on his Surrey MPs, a gallery of gleeful penny-pinchers.
(8) They have also funded several UK MPs on all expenses paid trips to Azerbaijan including Mark Field, Gerry Sutcliffe, Stephen Hammond and the speaker at next week's jazz reception – Christopher Pincher.
(9) December 5, 2013 Christopher Pincher (@ChrisPincher) Very heavy winds in Tamworth, Shenstone & other local villages this pm.
(10) A kind of noval digital and electromagnetically controlled pinchers is developed from its original type for more quantitatively pinching the spinal cord.