Scissor vs. Scissors

Scissornoun

(rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.

Scissornoun

(India) Scissors.

Scissornoun

(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

Scissorverb

(transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

Scissorverb

(transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.

Scissorverb

To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.

Scissorverb

To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

Scissorverb

To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

Scissorverb

(skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Scissorverb

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

Scissorverb

cut with or as if with scissors

Scissorsnoun

A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.

Scissorsnoun

An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.

Scissorsnoun

A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Scissorsnoun

An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.

Scissorsnoun

A scissors hold.

Scissorsnoun

(rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Scissorsnoun

(rare) scissor

Scissors

A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.

Scissorsnoun

and edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades

Scissorsnoun

a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze

Scissorsnoun

a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as scissors move

Scissors

Scissors are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed.