Scissor

Quick meaning: Scissor is a noun meaning Attributive form of scissors.

Meaning

Attributive form of scissors.

More Meanings

1. (India) Scissors.
2. (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
3. (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
6. (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
7. (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.

Example Sentences

[…] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.

Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.

I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.

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Word Forms

• scissors
• scissoring
• scissored

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snip, clipper, probe-scissors, blade, razor, pruner.

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