pipe cleaner

A pliant, tufted, narrow rod used for cleaning the stem of a tobacco pipe.

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pipe cleaner

a short length of thin wires twisted so as to hold tiny tufts of yarn: used to clean the stem of a tobacco pipe

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pipe′ clean`er

a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.

[1865–70]

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Noun

pipe cleaner - cleaning implement consisting of a flexible tufted wire that is used to clean a pipe stem

cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement - any of a large class of implements used for cleaning

Translations

scovolino piffero

pipe cleaner

n → scovolino

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When the child died, Nestor, on the other hand, could probably have killed himself by drinking a pipe cleaner, police said.

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Therefore, the loop region can be referred to as a "pencil binding domain," and the region(s) of the pipe cleaner held by the students (by which the protein "binds" to the hands) can be referred to as the "handle domain(s)." Students can quantify the number of proteins with 0, 1, or 2 or more pencil binding or handle domains observed in all the proteins developed by the class.

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