scissor

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  scissor    scissors  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scissor

▶verb

• 1 cut with scissors.

• 2 move or cause to move in a way resembling the action of scissors.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scissors/ˈsɪzəz/

▶plural noun

• 1 (also a pair of scissors) an instrument used for cutting cloth and paper, consisting of two crossing blades pivoted in the middle and operated by thumb and fingers inserted in rings at each end.

• 2 (also scissor) [as modifier] denoting an action in which two things cross each other or open and close like a pair of scissors: a scissor kick.

– origin ME: from OFr. cisoires, from late L. cisoria, pl. of cisorium ‘cutting instrument’; the sc- spelling arose by assoc. with the L. stem sciss- ‘cut’.