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Tweeze


Definition:

  • (n.) A surgeon's case of instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slint Spiderland 8 Spiderland Slint, 1991 This deeply different band, from Louisville, Kentucky, broke up when they finished Spiderland , a huge step up from debut Tweez ; singing guitarist Brian McMahan checked himself into hospital.
  • (2) Dude, just tweeze those meat fibres out of whatever nutritional soup-filled Petri dishes I imagine they're currently swishing about in, press them together, grill under a medium heat and pop them in a bap for me.

Tweezers


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
  • (2) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
  • (3) Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology.
  • (4) He dissects Rowland’s testimony with the abstracted interest of a child operating on a fly with a pair of tweezers.
  • (5) When first bound on the central lamellar surface, Con A-coated particles would diffuse randomly; when such bound particles were brought to the leading edge of the lamella with the optical tweezers, they were often transported rearward.
  • (6) Open the phone just enough to reveal the metal bracket covering the home button cable, remove it with tweezers, and pry the connector up from its socket.
  • (7) The interaction of noise and heat entailed superior performance of the tasks of memory and search, two hand coordination and reaction time, at moderate difficulty levels, but no distinct interaction effect was observed on the performance of tweezer dexterity.
  • (8) The pitfalls of electronic tweezers and the dangers of self-electrolysis are discussed.
  • (9) Men in professional kitchens all over the world, whether they are cooking big, meaty dishes, or tweezering edible micro flowers on to oysters, salivate over getting a dish just so, and appear to take it far more seriously than most female professional chefs and cooks.
  • (10) There is exciting speculation that the ban on nail scissors and tweezers in hand baggage will also soon be rescinded.
  • (11) One-hundred sixty flexofiles and 160 flexoreamers of various size, of which 40 were pre-curved by hand, 40 using hemostatic tweezers, 40 others were curved with an instrument designed for that purpose, and 40 remained unbent as a sample group, were used in the test.
  • (12) Physical measures to prevent tick bites include avoiding tick-infested areas, wearing light-colored clothing for easy identification of crawling ticks, regularly checking the body and pets for ticks, wearing protective garments and closed-toed shoes, and removing attached ticks promptly by using tweezers or forceps to apply a steady upward pull.
  • (13) It is recommended that the tick be grasped as close to the skin as possible with curved forceps; if these are not available, use tweezers or protected fingers.
  • (14) Pearson correlations between speed on the test of tweezer dexterity and quality measures indicated that, on the average, those practitioners who took longer to complete the tweezer test achieved significantly higher scores on restorative quality.
  • (15) Measurements included duration and frequency of error for hand steadiness, duration and frequency error for following a tracing pattern, and duration of completing a tweezer-pin placement dexterity test.
  • (16) The three hand function tests used were the Purdue Pegboard, O'Connor Tweezer Dexterity, and Smith Hand Function.
  • (17) Run your finger along the fillet and remove any bones with tweezers.
  • (18) A battery of performance tests consisting of 'letter cancellation,' 'hand 'precision,' 'two-hand coordination,' and 'tweezer dexterity' were administered on 12 desk workers in an illumination chamber under six different combinations of noise and illumination made out of two levels of white noise (70 and 100 dB) and three levels of illuminations (50, 150, and 300 lx).
  • (19) Step six: Time for tweezers Step six: Time for tweezers Photograph: John Carey Finally, take out the pin bones from each fillet using tweezers.
  • (20) Bowed and drooling and stabbing at his skin with a pair of golden tweezers, he cut a pitiful sight.

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