Scissor
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English
Noun
Scissor (plural Scissors)- (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
- (Noun Adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
Verb
Scissor (third-person singular simple present Scissors, present participle Scissoring, simple past and past participle Scissored)
- To cut using, or as if using scissors.
- To excise or expunge something from a text.
- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
- The runner scissored over the hurdles.
- To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
Thesaurus
amputate, ax, bisect, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dissever, excise, fissure, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, lance, pare, prune, rend, rive, saw, sever, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, sunder, tear, whittle
Etymology
Altered from scissors; ultimately from Latin cædere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by scindere (“to split”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪzə(r)
Translations
Noun
one blade on a pair of scissors
Verb
to cut using scissors
