🇬🇧🇪🇸 tweezers - pinzas : English Lesson

Meaning of "tweezers" ("pinzas"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Tweezers are small metal tools that look like two skinny arms stuck together; when you pinch the ends, the tips close so you can grab tiny things, like a splinter in your finger, a little hair, or a very small object that fingers are too big and clumsy to hold.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried to impress my cat by feeding her one kibble with tweezers; she sniffed it and walked away like a disappointed queen.

Mom used tweezers to pull out my splinter while I screamed like she was removing my entire leg.

My brother used tweezers to pull a Cheerio out of the fish tank while the fish stared at him like he was stealing their donut.

I tried to eat a pea with tweezers to look fancy, but it shot across the room like a tiny green cannonball.

Surgeons use super-precise tweezers called forceps, which basically means even in the hospital someone is using fancy pinchers to grab tiny stuff.

She felt a sharp scratch and saw a splinter in her thumb. At the sink, she held bright tweezers, careful hands shaking. The tweezers caught the tiny wood. She turned the tweezers slowly and pulled. Tears stopped when the pain eased. Later she used tweezers to pick a stuck seed from the plant, then set the tweezers down and smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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