scissor
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Altered from scissors; ultimately from Latin cædere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by scindere (“to split”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪzə(r)
[edit] 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.
[edit] Translations
one blade on a pair of scissors
[edit] 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.
[edit] Translations
to cut using scissors
