noun
Meaning 1
Attributive form of scissors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, form-of
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Standard Lemma guide
scissor
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australia, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪzə/
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General-American: /ˈsɪzɚ/
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New-Zealand: /ˈsəzə/
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Scotland: /ˈsɪzəɾ/
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rhymes with -ɪzə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
One blade of a pair of scissors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Qualifier: chiefly when detached
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noun
Meaning 3
Scissors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India
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verb
Meaning 4
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267, [The poem] “All for Love” [...] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do [...]
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verb
Meaning 5
To excise or expunge something from a text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
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verb
Meaning 6
To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Examples
- 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256, The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
- 1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing, This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.
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verb
Meaning 7
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- The runner scissored over the hurdles.
- 1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
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verb
Meaning 8
To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: lifestyle, sex, sexuality
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verb
Meaning 9
To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skating, sports
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verb
Meaning 10
cut with or as if with scissors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cut
History
Etymology
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ножица (nožica) — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Catalan: tisora — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Finnish: saksenterä — one blade on a pair of scissors
- French: ciseau — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Galician: texoira — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Galician: tesoira — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Galician: tallanta — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Galician: arneta — one blade on a pair of scissors
- German: Schere — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Greek: ψαλίδι (psalídi) — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Hungarian: olló — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Italian: forbici — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Spanish: tijera — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Swedish: skänkel — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Swedish: skalm — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Swedish: saxblad — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Tagalog: gunting — one blade on a pair of scissors
- Finnish: saksi- — noun adjunct
- Swedish: sax- — noun adjunct
- Biatah Bidayuh: gutin — to cut using scissors
- Bulgarian: режа с ножица (reža s nožica) — to cut using scissors
- Chinese Mandarin: 剪 (jiǎn) — to cut using scissors
- Dutch: knippen — to cut using scissors
- Finnish: saksia — to cut using scissors
- Finnish: leikata saksilla — to cut using scissors
- French: couper aux ciseaux — to cut using scissors
- Galician: trosquiar — to cut using scissors
- Greek: ψαλιδίζω (psalidízo) — to cut using scissors
- Ido: cizagar — to cut using scissors
- Malay: menggunting — to cut using scissors
- Māori: kutikuti — to cut using scissors
- Khiamniungan Naga: tìp — to cut using scissors
- Norwegian: klippe — to cut using scissors
- Swedish: klippa — to cut using scissors
- Swedish: saxa — to cut using scissors
- Turkish: makasla kesmek — to cut using scissors
- Turkish: kayırtmak — to cut using scissors
- Bulgarian: изрязвам (izrjazvam) — to excise from text
- Finnish: saksia — to excise from text
- Finnish: leikata — to excise from text
- Greek: περικόπτω (perikópto) — to excise from text
- Finnish: saksata — to move something like a pair of scissors
- Hungarian: ollózik — to move something like a pair of scissors
- Dutch: scharen — to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
- Finnish: saksittaa — to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
- Spanish: hacer la tijereta — to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
- Spanish: hacer la tijera — to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
- Swedish: saxa — to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
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