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Tentacle vs Tweezer - What's the difference?

tentacle | tweezer |

As nouns the difference between tentacle and tweezer

is that tentacle is an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid while tweezer is (us) a pair of tweezers, tweezers.

As an adjective tweezer is

of, pertaining to, or relating to, tweezers.

As a verb tweezer is

to use tweezers.

tentacle

Noun

(en noun)
  • An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  • * 1873, , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle , that slid wriggling down the ladder.
  • * 1897,
  • The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles , immediately under the mouth.
  • * 1936,
  • Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles .

    Derived terms

    * tentacular

    tweezer

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to, or relating to, tweezers.
  • Noun

    (tweezers)
  • (US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to use tweezers
  • * 2011 , William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
  • *:Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers...