What's the difference between pincers and scissors?
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.
Scissors
Definition:
(n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
(2) Yoon ring tubal segment excision was performed with CO2 laser and coelioscopic scissors, after mesosalpinx haemostasis by ornithine--vasopressin infiltration.
(3) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
(4) If you've somehow missed the multi-million-selling series turned mini-series turned musical by the Scissor Sisters let me tell you how very jealous of you I am.
(5) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(6) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(7) He attempts a scissor kick but miskicks the ball wide.
(8) When front scissors were performed in an aggressive manner, the initial loading spikes averaged 1.0 BW in magnitude (maximum 1.8 BW) with an average rise time of 8.2 ms; calculated localized loading rates averaged 129 BW s-1 (maximum 219 BW s-1).
(9) For resection of scar tissue, a special scissors devised by us was used.
(10) The following conclusions were drawn: Up to about 30 degrees C the lipid A assemblies were supposed to adopt virtually bilayered, true lamellar arrangements, as revealed by the analysis of greater than CH2 scissoring vibrations and X-ray diffraction pattern.
(11) Moreover, the site in human renin that corresponds to the proteolytic cleavage site in mouse renin also appears to be exposed on the surface so as to be easily scissored during the maturation process.
(12) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
(13) With the tip of the hemostat or scissors the incision is opened longitudinally, and the lower legs of the incision are opened and freed up from the bulbocavernosus muscles.
(14) This method avoids the disadvantages inevitable in discision with a knife or scissors.
(15) It also is so constructed that a scissors-like effect is avoided and satisfactory noncrushing occlusion is obtained.
(16) This result is consistent with the Y-shaped scissor grip-leucine zipper model recently proposed for a class of DNA binding proteins important in the regulation of gene expression.
(17) But my mother had, like a true self-censor, carefully cut out all the explicit words with scissors.
(18) I'm reminded of a great West Wing episode where the First Lady, played by Stockard Channing, took scissors to her husband's tie just moments before a debate.
(19) The other costumes on the top rail are a pink cowgirl outfit, a pink waitress costume, a pink and purple superhero costume and a "hair stylist" tabard, in pink with purple trim, complete with plastic comb, mirror, scissors and hairdryer.
(20) The remaining 27 were defibulated with the use of various instruments such as knives, razor blades, and scissors.