kaavin — meaning in English

English meaning

• curette noun A small hand-held surgical instrument with a scoop or hook at the tip, used to scrape or clean tissue.
• stripper noun A person who takes off their clothes to music as a paid performance, usually in a club or at a private party.

Senses

kaavin is used for these senses in English:

• curette (medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
• scraper An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• strigil (historical) A grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.
• stripper A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.

curette — full definition

1. noun A small hand-held surgical instrument with a scoop or hook at the tip, used to scrape or clean tissue.
2. verb To scrape or clean tissue with a curette.

stripper — full definition

1. noun A person who takes off their clothes to music as a paid performance, usually in a club or at a private party.
2. noun A chemical product or tool used to remove a coating such as paint, varnish or wallpaper from a surface.
3. noun In industry, a column or vessel that removes a dissolved gas or volatile component from a liquid.

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