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Meaning of "lazy tongs" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LAZY TONGS

lazy tongs play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAZY TONGS

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lazy tongs is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAZY TONGS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lazy tongs

Pantograph

A pantograph is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen. If a line drawing is traced by the first point, an identical, enlarged, or miniaturized copy will be drawn by a pen fixed to the other. Using the same principle, different kinds of pantographs are used for other forms of duplication in areas such as sculpture, minting, engraving and milling. Because of the shape of the original device, a pantograph also refers to a kind of structure that can compress or extend like an accordion, forming a characteristic rhomboidal pattern. This can be found in extension arms for wall-mounted mirrors, temporary fences, scissor lifts, and other scissor mechanisms such as the pantograph used in electric locomotives and trams.

Definition of lazy tongs in the English dictionary

The definition of lazy tongs in the dictionary is a set of tongs with extensible arms to allow objects to be grasped or handled at a distance.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAZY TONGS

laze
lazier
laziest
lazily
laziness
Lazio
lazuli
lazulite
lazurite
lazy
lazy bed
lazy daisy stitch
lazy eye
lazy Susan
lazybones
lazyish
lazzarone
lazzo

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAZY TONGS

curling tongs
earnings
feelings
findings
hammer and tongs
ice tongs
Kings
longs
pair of tongs
rankings
ratings
savings
Song of Songs
Springs
strings
sugar tongs
things
tongs
wings
Writings

Synonyms and antonyms of lazy tongs in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lazy tongs» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAZY TONGS

Find out the translation of lazy tongs to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lazy tongs from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lazy tongs» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

懒钳
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pinzas lazy
570 millions of speakers

English

lazy tongs
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आलसी चिमटे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملقط كسول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ленивые щипцы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pinças preguiçosos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অলস চিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pinces paresseux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tongkat malas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nürnberger Schere
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マジックハンド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

게으른 집게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puguh tongs
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kẹp lười biếng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சோம்பேறி இடுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आळशी चित्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tembel maşalar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pinze pigri
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

leniwe szczypce
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ледачі щипці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clește leneș
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τεμπέλης λαβίδες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lui ´n tang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lata tungorna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

late tang
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lazy tongs

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAZY TONGS»

The term «lazy tongs» is used very little and occupies the 179.273 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAZY TONGS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lazy tongs

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAZY TONGS»

Discover the use of lazy tongs in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lazy tongs and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Popular Science
The necessary cutting up of each rib into three separate pieces threw the tensile strains of each rib upon the mentioned substitutes for spars, subjecting them to a torsion which, in turn, required that all the links of the lazy-tongs be fitted as ...
2
Popular Mechanics
LAZY TONGS LIFT VALVE SPRINGS EASILY" The difficulty of lifting valve springs of an automobile engine to permit removal of retaining pins, is greatly lessened by means of a set of lazy tongs recently devised for the purpose. Extend - ing the ...
3
The London Journal of Arts and Sciences
frame, by means of a series of levers combined in the way of lazy-tongs : one end of the lazy-tongs being attached to the carriage, and the other to the standard. • <• .' At the end of the axle of the delivering rollers, that receive and guide the ...
‎1826
4
The London journal of arts and sciences (and repertory of ...
These levers open and shut, that is, elongate and contract, upon the principle of the lazy tongs, which is a contrivance well understood by mechanics. > The lazy tongs is attached in the middle to the axle. or shaft of a pair of running wheels b} ...
William Newton, 1828
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Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record ...
These improvements in the construction of steam-engines consist in removing the working cylinder from immediate connexion with the ordinary cross-head or beam, and employing a combination of levers familiarly called " lazy tongs," as an  ...
William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington, 1837
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Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences
THESE improvements in the construction of steam-engines consist in removing the working cylinder from immediate connexion with the ordinary cross-head or beam, and employing a combination of levers familiarly called “lazy tongs,” as an  ...
‎1837
7
Mechanics' Magazine,No.200 August 2,1828
... setting in motion of a lever movement, similar to that which is used in the instrument called the ' lazy-tongs.' " A series of cross levers, connected together by joints — (literally a pair of lazy tongs) — is attached crosswise to the axle of a pair of ...
Mechanics' Magazine,No.200 August 2,1828, 1828
8
Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and ...
Of all the numerous plans for pressing the "lazy-tongs" into the fire-escape service, we do not remember to have seen a ruder scheme than the foregoing. Some better plans were recently rejected by the Society of Arts, whose committee of ...
Sholto Percy, 1841
9
Popular Science
During World War II, our shop has been turning out parts for aircraft engines, and I have depended on this tool to help me overcome my physical handicap. It is definitely not a lazy tongs, but a decided asset in my shop. Not being able to find  ...
10
The Franklin Journal and American Mechanics' Magazine
At the end of the axle of the delivering rollers that receive and guide the rovings, there are some bevel-wheels attached, which, as they revolve, move a cam, or fusee, and this cam, acting against the legs of the lazy -tongs, according to its ...
‎1826

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