different between pince vs tongs

French

Etymology

From pincer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s/

Noun

pince f (plural pinces)

1. pincer, claw
2. pliers
3. tongs
4. crowbar

Derived terms

• pince à épiler
• pincette
• planchette à pince

Descendants

Verb

pince

1. inflection of pincer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pince” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language. Compare Slovak pivnica. From Proto-Slavic *pivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pint?s?]
• Hyphenation: pin?ce
• Rhymes: -t?s?

Noun

pince (plural pincék)

1. basement (a floor of a building below ground level)

   Synonym: alagsor

2. cellar (an enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter)
3. cellar (a wine collection)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• pince in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???c?/

Adjective

pince

1. inflection of pinc:
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

pince

1. comparative degree of pinc

Mutation

Spanish

Verb

pince

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pinzar.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /t??z/

Etymology 1

tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s

Noun

tongs pl (plural only)

1. An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.

   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

2. (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.

Derived terms

• ice tongs
• pipe tongs
• port tongs

Translations

See also

• forceps
• pair of tongs
• pincers
• pliers
• scissors
• shears
• tong
• tweezers

Etymology 2

Noun

tongs

1. plural of tong (“instrument”)

Etymology 3

Verb

tongs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tong

Etymology 4

Noun

tongs

1. plural of tong (“Chinese secret society”)

Anagrams

• stong