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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
applicator
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A specially designed applicator was supplied, which minimised damage to local tissue.
▪ Products can be marketed in a container which plugs directly into the applicator.
▪ There is a mirror and packs of hygienic, disposable applicators, too.
▪ You just tape her by the wings to an applicator stick using Scotch tape.
Wiktionary
applicator

n. A tool or device used to apply a fluid or semi-fluid substance to a surface.

WordNet
applicator

n. a device for applying a substance [syn: applier]

Wikipedia
Applicator

An applicator may refer to:

  • A tool or device used to apply a fluid or semi-fluid substance to a surface.
  • A tool to put tubal ligation clips in place.
  • electron beam collimator component in some devices

Usage examples of "applicator".

Mars Blood, complete with spray applicator and fit-all fingerstalls that mask each finger completely except for the nail.

Now the sperm was sorted, and he still remembers vividly how she lay in bed, her legs splayed, his fingers parting labia majora, labia minora, while he carefully slid the specially lubricated applicator into position and pressed the release button.

New divers are often surprised to find such modern objects aboard old shipwrecks, but a veteran like Kohler had seen Budweiser cans, plastic prescription-medicine bottles, a Kotex applicator, even a Barney the Dinosaur balloon on hundred-year-old wrecks, and he understood that such objects had been dropped off passing boats and had drifted along the ocean bottom until they got caught up in a wreck.

Atop the dresser was a forest of dried-up make-up bottles, lipsticks, bottles of scent that had long ago gone skunky, jars of cream and mascara applicators.

The woman ahead of Chloe and the six others she had seen with the mark of the believer stayed where they were, while the other three scrambled to the mark applicators.

But now she stood in the heat of the day, dust kicking up around her, and noticed the sympathetic looks of the mark applicators and the other officials at each desk who had processed the condemned.

Jessamyn said, holding out three puce applicators on the back of his left hand.

In the makeup trailer, powder puffs and blush applicators worked furiously, and hair dryers screamed.

She growled, a feral sound of pain and anger, as she flung the box of Playtex easy-glide applicators at him.

I start­ed going through it, checking off everything of interest that I saw and writing quantities: electric surgical knives, instant heat flasks, seven varieties of anesthetic applicators, stainproof coats .

I start­ed going through it, checking off everything of interest that I saw and writing quantities: electric surgical knives, instant heat flasks, seven varieties of anesthetic applicators, stainproof coats.

The art director steps up with his little foam applicator and retouches where the bronzer is streaked on my butt cheeks.

I toweled down hard, slapped on body lotion, then put my face in the makeup applicator.

From one vial, he took a small applicator brush and painstakingly painted a thin strip of growth medium between two silver tracings of circuitry within the case.

The applicator is a simple hand-held instrument which delivers sound from magnetic tapes.