eraser
橡皮擦,橡皮檫,橡皮泥,橡皮
Definitions
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- : 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.