Off the shores of Newfoundland, Canada, an ecosystem is unraveling at the hands (or pincers) of an invasive crab.
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Pincers
//ˈpɪnsəɹz//
Synonyms for "pincers" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
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Translations
112 translations across 55 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَلْبَتَان noun (gripping tool)
Armenian
1 entries- աքցան noun (gripping tool)
Aromanian
1 entries- cleashti noun (gripping tool)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəlbətin noun (gripping tool)
Bashkir
2 entries- ҡыпсыуыр noun (gripping tool)
- ҡыпһыуыр noun (gripping tool)
Belarusian
3 entries- абцугі́ noun (gripping tool)
- кле́шчы noun (gripping tool)
- шчыпцы́ noun (gripping tool)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кле́щи noun (gripping tool)
- щи́пци noun (front claws)
Catalan
1 entries- tenalles noun (gripping tool)
Chechen
1 entries- морзах noun (gripping tool)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鉗 /钳 noun (gripping tool)
- 鉗子 /钳子 noun (gripping tool)
Czech
2 entries- klepeta noun (front claws)
- kleště noun (gripping tool)
Dutch
1 entries- knijptang noun (gripping tool)
Estonian
3 entries- naelatangid noun (gripping tool)
- näpitsad noun (gripping tool)
- sõrad noun (front claws)
Finnish
2 entries- hohtimet noun (gripping tool)
- sakset noun (front claws)
French
3 entries- pinces noun (gripping tool)
- pinces noun (front claws)
- tenaille noun (gripping tool)
Galician
1 entries- tenaces noun (gripping tool)
Georgian
2 entries- მარწუხი noun (gripping tool)
- მაშები noun (gripping tool)
German
4 entries- Beißzange noun (gripping tool)
- Kantenzange noun (gripping tool)
- Kneifzange noun (gripping tool)
- Krebsschere noun (front claws)
Greek
1 entries- τανάλια noun (gripping tool)
Hungarian
1 entries- harapófogó noun (gripping tool)
Ido
2 entries- pinco noun (gripping tool)
- tenalio noun (gripping tool)
Ingrian
3 entries- pihet noun (gripping tool)
- pihet noun (front claws)
- pihtelet noun (gripping tool)
Irish
2 entries- ordóg noun (front claws)
- teanchair noun (gripping tool)
Italian
2 entries- pinze noun (front claws)
- tenaglia noun (gripping tool)
Japanese
3 entries- やっとこ noun (gripping tool)
- ペンチ noun (gripping tool)
- 矢床 noun (gripping tool)
Khalaj
1 entries- ambur noun (gripping tool)
Korean
3 entries- 못뽑이 noun (gripping tool)
- 족집게 noun (gripping tool)
- 펜치 noun (gripping tool)
Latin
1 entries- forceps noun (gripping tool)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- klěšće noun (gripping tool)
- klěšće noun (front claws)
Macedonian
1 entries- клешти noun (gripping tool)
Māori
1 entries- kuku noun (gripping tool)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- klo noun (front claws)
- knipetang noun (gripping tool)
- tang noun (gripping tool)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- klo noun (front claws)
- knipetong noun (gripping tool)
- tong noun (gripping tool)
Old Galician-Portuguese
1 entries- tẽaz noun (gripping tool)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قیصاج noun (gripping tool)
- كرپدن noun (gripping tool)
Persian
3 entries- انبر noun (gripping tool)
- انبردست noun (gripping tool)
- انبرک noun (gripping tool)
Polish
2 entries- kleszcze noun (gripping tool)
- obcęgi noun (gripping tool)
Portuguese
3 entries- patolas noun (front claws)
- pinça noun (gripping tool)
- tenaz noun (gripping tool)
Rade
1 entries- pen noun (gripping tool)
Romanian
2 entries- clește noun (gripping tool)
- clește noun (front claws)
Russian
4 entries- кле́щи noun (gripping tool)
- клешни́ noun (front claws)
- клешня́ noun (front claws)
- щипцы́ noun (gripping tool)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- klijéšte noun (gripping tool)
- kléšte noun (gripping tool)
- кле́ште noun (gripping tool)
- клије́ште noun (gripping tool)
Slovak
1 entries- kliešte noun (gripping tool)
Slovene
1 entries- klešče noun (gripping tool)
Spanish
4 entries- pinzas noun (gripping tool)
- pinzas noun (front claws)
- tenaza noun (gripping tool)
- tenazas noun (gripping tool)
Swedish
3 entries- hovtång noun (gripping tool)
- kniptång noun (gripping tool)
- tång noun (gripping tool)
Tagalog
1 entries- bahaypato noun (gripping tool)
Tajik
1 entries- анбӯр noun (gripping tool)
Tamil
3 entries- இடுக்கி noun (gripping tool)
- இடுக்கி noun (front claws)
- கொடுக்கு noun (front claws)
Tarifit
1 entries- iɣendan noun (gripping tool)
Thai
2 entries- ก้าม noun (front claws)
- คีม noun (gripping tool)
Turkish
2 entries- kerpeten noun (gripping tool)
- kıskaç noun (front claws)
Ukrainian
3 entries- клі́щі noun (gripping tool)
- обце́ньки noun (gripping tool)
- щи́пці noun (gripping tool)
Uzbek
2 entries- ombur noun (gripping tool)
- qisqich noun (gripping tool)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kìm noun (gripping tool)
- kềm noun (gripping tool)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Scorpions have large pincers.
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There is a new mechanical surgeon, equipped with two tiny pincers 1.8 millimeters in diameter, which is delicate enough to perform eye operations with more accuracy than human hands.
Source: tatoeba (11952591)
The crab's pincers tightened around my wrist.
Source: tatoeba (12470171)
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