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eraser

/ih-rey-ser/US // ɪˈreɪ sər //UK // (ɪˈreɪzə) //

橡皮擦,橡皮檫,橡皮泥,橡皮

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.
    • : a person or thing that erases.

Examples

  • In the same way that Cage composed music for “prepared pianos” — instruments with bolts, screws, mutes and rubber erasers placed on the strings to alter or silence the sound — Paik deliberately damaged and even gutted TVs.

  • Sponge erasers are particularly good for touching up matte-finish tapes and getting into fine grooves in grips.

  • To tap an unlikely source of nutrition, insects small enough to sit on a pencil eraser have to suck harder than any known creature.

  • He picked up an eraser and wiped out decades of other people’s blood, sweat, and tears in so many areas.

  • As an extra feature, the eraser cap has a lead selector that goes from HB to 4H, so you can easily identify what kind of lead is in your pencil.

  • Joel sank into the couch, smiling, while Ethan threw a balled-up eraser against the wall and laughed.

  • The Wichita State Shocker, named WuShock, resembles a frayed yellow pencil eraser and/or Bart Simpson on meth.

  • When he started to take it apart, he found a microphone the size of a pencil eraser drilled into its framework.

  • Enter another eraser of the line between public and private: reality TV.

  • A piece of rubber stuck on the tang end answers the double purpose of a protector and eraser.

  • A good knife eraser for ink can be made from a discarded or broken ruling pen.

  • A ball, eraser or some object is given each team on opposite side of the circle.

  • At school I gave away my scholar's-companion and my eraser and my pencils and pen-holders, and an old torn map, as keepsakes.

  • The drawing had been made with a hard pencil and the eraser had removed the lead, but a well-defined imprint remained.