different between tweezer vs timer

English

Adjective

tweezer (not comparable)

1. (attributive) tweezers.

Noun

tweezer (plural tweezers)

1. (US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

Verb

tweezer (third-person singular simple present tweezers, present participle tweezering, simple past and past participle tweezered)

1. To use tweezers.
   • 2011, William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

     Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers […]

English

Etymology

time +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ta?m?/
• Rhymes: -a?m?(r)

Noun

timer (plural timers)

1. Someone or something which times.
2. A device used to measure amounts of time.
3. Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.

Derived terms

• egg timer, egg-timer

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (taim?)
• ? Korean: ??? (taimeo)

Translations

See also

• programmable
• time switch

Anagrams

• Terim, ermit, merit, miter, mitre, remit

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English timer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajm?r/, [?t??jm?]

Noun

timer c (singular definite timeren, plural indefinite timere)

1. timer

Inflection

Etymology 2

See time (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m?r/, [?t?i?m?]

Noun

timer c pl

1. plural indefinite of time

Etymology 3

See time (“to time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tajm?r/, [?t??jm?]

Verb

timer

1. present tense of time

Interlingua

Verb

timer

1. to dread, fear

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English timer.

Noun

timer m (invariable)

1. timer (device)

   Synonym: temporizzatore

Anagrams

• metri, mitre, termi, tremi

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

timer m pl

1. indefinite plural of time

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English timer.

Noun

timer m (plural timers)

1. timer (device used to measure time)

   Synonym: temporizador