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scissor en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɪzə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈsɪzɚ/ (General-American)
- /ˈsɪzəɾ/ (Scotland)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsəzə/ (New-Zealand)
Etymology
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Meanings
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(attributive, form-of) Attributive form of scissors.
The records of the Cutlers’ Company of London (1624) refer to scissor-making in the city, although the quality of English-made scissors did not match that of continental scissors for another 100 years. A few English firms of scissor-makers, notably those of Beach, Macklin and Neesham, established a small but notable industry at Salisbury, Wilts, from the mid-17th century until the early 20th.
2006, Gordon Campbell, editor, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298, column 1:The doctor came over and peeled off the makeshift bandage, cleaned what he could and looked at it. / “Well, I know what I have to do.” He nodded at me and picked up a scissor-type tool. / “Oh, ho, ho! Don’t you do that; don’t do it; don’t you be cutting that thing off. You stitch it up. I need that finger to chord a guitar!”
2008, Clay Walker, Sir Long Chain Charles, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 43:He put his two fingers in the scissor holes. He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist. The small scissors sheared right through it.
2010, Jennifer Maruno, Warbird, Napoleon Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.
2005, Jason Anderson, Showbiz, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 21:
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(qualifier:chiefly when detached, rare) One blade of a pair of scissors.
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(India) Scissors.
Forms
Deriveds
scissor binoculars · scissored · scissor tackle · scissor lift · scissor-tailed · scissor-tailed flycatcher · scissorwise · scissor cross · scissorbill · scissor congruence · scissor statement · scissorlike · scissor door · scissor tooth · scissor kick · scissor bite · scissor sister · scissor-congruent · scissor switch
Translations (19)
gl tesoira (one blade on a pair of scissors) · gl tallanta (one blade on a pair of scissors) · hu olló (one blade on a pair of scissors) · ca tisora (one blade on a pair of scissors) · fr ciseau (one blade on a pair of scissors) · de Schere (one blade on a pair of scissors) · it forbici (one blade on a pair of scissors) · gl arneta (one blade on a pair of scissors) · el ψαλίδι (one blade on a pair of scissors) · es tijera (one blade on a pair of scissors) · tl gunting (one blade on a pair of scissors) · sv sax- (noun adjunct) · fi saksenterä (one blade on a pair of scissors) · sv saxblad (one blade on a pair of scissors) · gl texoira (one blade on a pair of scissors) · bg ножица (one blade on a pair of scissors) · fi saksi- (noun adjunct) · sv skänkel (one blade on a pair of scissors) · sv skalm (one blade on a pair of scissors)
scissor en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɪzə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈsɪzɚ/ (General-American)
- /ˈsɪzəɾ/ (Scotland)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsəzə/ (New-Zealand)
Etymology
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
Network Rail, which had been able to secure funding from a multitude of 'patient capital' players across the world, was brought to heel, its credit card scissored.
2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39:They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair.
2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 48:1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267,
[The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]
[…] let me know,
Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him
My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust
To such a Favorites glasse […]
1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 2:Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.
1958, Truman Capote, chapter 4, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, New York: Vintage, published 1993, page 37:[…] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.
1993, Paul Theroux, chapter 4, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Ivy Books, published 1995, page 29:
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(transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]
2003, William Gass, “The Shears of the Censor”, in Tests of Time, University of Chicago Press, page 190:The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.
1955, Lionel Shapiro, chapter 15, in The Sixth of June, Garden City, NY: Doubleday:
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(obsolete, transitive) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing,
This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.
1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,
The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
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(intransitive, transitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950,
She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:[…] I stand on tiptoe, lift a shade and see a pair of nyloned legs scissoring through a cold, wet, metropolitan afternoon.
1978, Edmund White, chapter 5, in Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Penguin, published 1980, page 67:She’s got her arms locked around his belly and her legs scissored around his shins […]
1989, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 9, in Homesick, New York: Ticknor & Fields, published 1990, page 139:The runner scissored over the hurdles.
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(intransitive) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
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To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Forms
Deriveds
unscissored
Translations (30)
sv saxa (to cut using scissors) · fi saksia (to cut using scissors) · bth gutin (to cut using scissors) · nl knippen (to cut using scissors) · es hacer la tijereta (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · fi saksittaa (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · it sforbiciare (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · fi saksia (to excise from text) · io cizagar (to cut using scissors) · gl trosquiar (to cut using scissors) · bg изрязвам (to excise from text) · kix tìp (to cut using scissors) · tr makasla kesmek (to cut using scissors) · es hacer la tijera (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · fi saksata (to move something like a pair of scissors) · tr kayırtmak (to cut using scissors) · sv saxa (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · fi leikata saksilla (to cut using scissors) · fi leikata (to excise from text) · nl scharen (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act) · ms menggunting (to cut using scissors) · fr couper aux ciseaux (to cut using scissors) · bg режа с ножица (to cut using scissors) · el ψαλιδίζω (to cut using scissors) · el περικόπτω (to excise from text) · hu ollózik (to move something like a pair of scissors) · no klippe (to cut using scissors) · sv klippa (to cut using scissors) · cmn 剪 (to cut using scissors) · mi kutikuti (to cut using scissors)