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scissors
top: embroidery scissors
bottom: all-purpose scissors
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scis·sor
 (s z  r)
KEY
TRANSITIVE VERB:
scis·sored
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scis·sor·ing
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scis·sors
- To cut or clip with scissors or shears.
NOUN:
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scissors
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A cutting implement consisting of two blades joined by a swivel pin that allows the cutting edges to be opened and closed.
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scissors
(used with a sing. verb)
Sports
- Any of various gymnastic exercises or jumps in which the movement of the legs suggests the opening and closing of scissors.
- A scissors hold.
ETYMOLOGY:
From alteration (influenced by Latin scissor, cutter), of Middle English sisours, scissors from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *c s ria, from Late Latin, pl. of csrium, cutting instrument, from Latin caesus, -csus, past participle of caedere, to cut; see ka-id- in Indo-European roots |
