Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pair of shears of medium or small size. See shears.
- n. Candle-snuffers.
Wiktionary
- n. countable 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.
- n. countable, rugby 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.
- n. countable, skating A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
- n. countable, wrestling A scissors hold.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
- n. a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
- n. an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
Etymologies
- From Middle English sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium ("cutting tool") (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or cæsus, past participle of cædere ("to cut"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In fact, it was said that they seldom left the IWW halls to go uptown into what they called the scissors belt sections of the city.”
“They have the same root as the word scissors, meaning they are designed, like scissors, to make a cut.”
“Also, rock-paper-scissors is a super simple game in terms of game theory, just throw randomly and you'll aways reach equilibrium.”
Singularity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In those days, all we had was tinfoil, catalog pages, boxes, home made paste, string, pieces of fabric, plain scissors, wax paper and maybe a few other things, but we used our imagination and were able to do quite a bit.”
“Just thinking about that little girl with scissors is enough to keep me awake at night.”
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“Why not throw out how running with scissors is evil.”
“Yeah - rock paper scissors is a very applicable design strategy that Blizzard just love to use.”
“No doubt about how sharp this pair of scissors is -- they sank into the flesh quite handily.”
“For some of us the news that scissors is the best choice was established long ago when we biffed the Hun under our greatest Leader.”
“While Ginny went into the bathroom to wash and put on a new shirt, Myra pulled some rusty scissors from a kitchen drawer and cut up the shirt.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scissors’.
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TECH - tools
A very wide category. There are possibly tens of thousands tool words in each of the world's languages.
broom, brush, feather duster, floor buffer, hataki, mop, mop bucket cart, needlegun scaler, pipe cleaner, pressure washer, sandblaster, sponge and 286 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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The Chandlery
Candles, candle-making; photometry, and a couple of oily fish used as light sources.
candle, chandlery, chandry, candle-carriage, candela, candle-power, egg-candling, wax, tallow, paraffin, taper, cerge and 135 more...
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TECH - furniture
The universe as IKEA sees it.
Furniture, haberdashery, household articles and a lot more. The bulk of the list (750 entries) are IKEA articles in the original English version IKEA use...active-response c..., add-on-unit for s..., adjustable slatte..., alarm clock, alkaline battery, anti-slip socks, anti-slip underlay, armchair, armrest, artificial flower, artificial garland, artificial plant ... and 830 more...
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Livestock Brands
Words related to livestock brands, along with some examples of how the brands would be "called." Brands are usually read from left to right, from top to bottom, and from the outside to the inside.
running w, flying j, rocking chair, rocking r, lazy y 4, square and compass, spider web, broken heart, walking y, y 4 connected, dollbaby, l in a house and 51 more...
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•Open List: Plural-Looking Singular N...
This came up on auroch, which is a misspelling of aurochs.
aurochs, series, corps, species, kudos, bitumen, caries, lens, crossroads, means, vertebra, scissors and 7 more...
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Recently Licked
Blame bilby. And dontcry.
cupcake, plate, fufluns, your finger befor..., postage stamp, lips, paul mcclosky, elbow, ice cream bowl, side of coffee cup, wooden spoon, teeth and 23 more...
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Double Letter words
Here is a list of Double Letter Words! Everyone is welcome to add some more words if needed!
bubbles, gallop, wheel, follow, grasshopper, bunny, rabbit, summer, groovy, puppy, fitness, greetings and 65 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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Words that make velvetrabbit squeak w...
puce, slug, slimy, sensible, product, horrendous, horoscope, dreary, nice, smug, kiddies, tabloid and 23 more...
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Compendium: Round 1
The game is over! Congratulations to our winner, jennarenn. Thanks for playing!
Moderating this round: uselessness
The category: Things you might find in a backpack
This ...pencil, ruler, books, lunch, lunchbox, snacks, paper, homework, hands, lip gloss, love notes, crayons and 79 more...
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things in the classroom
desk, blackboard, whiteboard, paper, nameplate, pencils, table, door, bathroom, glue, drinking fountain, teacher and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scissors.
rsure1 impossible POSSIBLEUNDERSCORE Mar 14, 2013
rsure1 hey Mar 14, 2013
seanahan Uh, alleviate is a verb, so it has no quantity. I think that "every word" means "every noun" in that sentence. Aug 17, 2009
PossibleUnderscore Leonardo DaVinci could control seven pairs of scissors independantly with one hand.
Aug 14, 2009
Telofy Cool, I've just transcribed an interview with Emilie Autumn who, among other things, talked about her her song Shalott!
Hmm, I wonder what's the quantity of something as lovely as alleviate. Aug 13, 2009
sobriquet Alfred Lord Tennyson believed he knew the quantity of every word in the English language except perhaps "scissors".
-Baron Hallam Tennyson, The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Aug 13, 2009