pinzare — meaning in English

English meaning

• staple noun A basic food or item that is used regularly and is essential to daily life.
• tong noun A gripping tool with two hinged arms, used to pick up or hold something (usually hot or awkward) without touching it directly.

Senses

pinzare is used for these senses in English:

• staple (transitive) To secure with a staple.
• tong (intransitive) To use tongs.

staple — full definition

1. noun A basic food or item that is used regularly and is essential to daily life.
2. noun A small U-shaped piece of wire pressed through paper (or into wood or a wall) to hold things together.
3. noun Something that appears regularly or is expected as a standard part of something.
4. verb To fasten something with a staple.
5. adj Main or principal; regularly used or produced.

tong — full definition

1. noun A gripping tool with two hinged arms, used to pick up or hold something (usually hot or awkward) without touching it directly.
2. verb To pick up, move, or handle something with tongs.
3. noun A Chinese-American community or family association, historically often organized around a shared clan name or hometown.
4. noun Historically, a Chinese secret society or organized crime group, especially one active in North American Chinatowns in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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