English Dictionary

tongs

IPA（発音記号）

/tɒŋz/

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ 広義

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.

日本語の意味

鉗子（かんし）：物を直接手で触らずに掴むため、二つの部分がヒンジで連結されている器具。 / トング：調理やその他の作業で、物を掴んだり移動させたりする際に用いられる道具。

She used the tongs to transfer the hot coals into the fire pit.

彼女はトングを使って熱い炭を焚き火の中に移した。

意味（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;[…].

意味（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.