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Pincer vs Tongs - What's the difference?

pincer | tongs |

As nouns the difference between pincer and tongs

is that pincer is waiter (a server in a restaurant or similar) while tongs is () an instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips or tongs can be .

As a verb tongs is

(tong).

pincer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers

    • Derived terms

    * pincer attack

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Of an attack) See pincer attack

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    tongs

    English

    (wikipedia tongs)

    Etymology 1

    tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (English plurals) An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
  • *
  • *:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs ;.
  • (lb) (English plurals) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
    • Derived terms
    * ice tongs * pipe tongs

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tong)

    • See also

    * forceps * pincers * pliers * scissors * shears * tong * tweezers

    Etymology 2

    tong ("Chinese secret society") + s

    Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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