Scissors

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  • n. 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. 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. A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
  • n. A scissors hold.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A pair of shears of medium or small size. See shears.
  • n. Candle-snuffers.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gymnastic exercise    wrestling hold   
    Variant
    pair of scissors    cisors    cizars    scissars   
    Form
    scissor   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    forfex    shears    pair of scissors   
    Verb Stem
    scissor   
     
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