scissor
English
A Scissor
Etymology
Altered from scissors; ultimately from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere (“to split”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)
Noun
scissor (plural scissors)
- (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
- (India) 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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- scissor switch
- scissor tackle
- scissorwise
Translations
one blade on a pair of scissors
Verb
scissor (third-person singular simple present scissors, present participle scissoring, simple past and past participle scissored)
- (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
- 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, London: John Waterson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 10,
- […] let me know,
- Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him
- My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust
- To such a Favorites glasse […]
- 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 […]
- 1958, Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, New York: Vintage, 1993 Chapter 4, p. 37,
- Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.
- 1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, New York: Ivy Books, 1995, Chapter 4, p. 29,
- […] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.
- 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, p. 48,
- They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair.
- 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, London: John Waterson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 10,
- (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- 1955, Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 15,
- The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.
- 2003, William Gass, “The Shears of the Censor” in Tests of Time, University of Chicago Press, p. 190,
- At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]
- (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
- 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.
- 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,
- (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
- 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.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 140,
- His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.
- 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Penguin, 1980, Chapter 5, p. 67,
- […] I stand on tiptoe, lift a shade and see a pair of nyloned legs scissoring through a cold, wet, metropolitan afternoon.
- 1989, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990, Chapter 9, p. 139,
- She’s got her arms locked around his belly and her legs scissored around his shins […]
- (intransitive) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
- (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Derived terms
Translations
to cut using scissors
to move something like a pair of scissors
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