Scissors
['sɪzəz] or ['sɪzɚz]
Definition
(noun.) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move.
(noun.) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze.
(noun.) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades.
Checker: Wyatt--From WordNet
Definition
(n. pl.) 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.
Checker: Monroe
Definition
n.pl. a cutting instrument consisting of two blades fastened at the middle: shears.—v.i. Scise sīz (obs.) to cut: to penetrate.—adjs. Sciss′ible Sciss′ile capable of being cut.—ns. Scis′sion the act of cutting: division: splitting; Scissipar′ity reproduction by fission.—v.t. Sciss′or to cut with scissors.—ns. Sciss′or-bill a skimmer; Sciss′or-tail an American bird the scissor-tailed fly-catcher; Sciss′or-tooth the sectorial tooth of a carnivore which cuts against its fellow; Scissū′ra (anat.) a fissure a cleft; Scis′sure a cleft: a fissure: a rupture: a division; Scissurel′la a genus of gasteropods with a shell deeply cut.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen; wives will be jealous and distrustful of their husbands, and sweethearts will quarrel and nag each other into crimination and recrimination. Dulness will overcast business horizons. To dream that you have your scissors sharpened, denotes that you will work to do that which will be repulsive to your feelings. To break them, there will be quarrels, and probable separations for you. To lose them, you will seek to escape from unpleasant tasks.
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Examples
- The seal was too beautiful to be broken, so I cut it round with my scissors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set: what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Major Dobbin, if you please not to break my scissors. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, said Maria, I will borrow the scissors of Pilar and cut thy hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Within the lid of the box, I carefully graved with my scissors' point certain initials. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Graham waxed inexorable on hearing the pleading tone; he took the scissors from his mother's work-basket. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Who invented the scissors and shears for cutting and trimming it when soft? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Well, never mind; I'll look your box over,--thimble, wax, two spools, scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right,--put it in here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The seal was too beautiful to be broken, so I cut it round with my scissors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set: what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Major Dobbin, if you please not to break my scissors. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, said Maria, I will borrow the scissors of Pilar and cut thy hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Within the lid of the box, I carefully graved with my scissors' point certain initials. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Graham waxed inexorable on hearing the pleading tone; he took the scissors from his mother's work-basket. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Who invented the scissors and shears for cutting and trimming it when soft? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Well, never mind; I'll look your box over,--thimble, wax, two spools, scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right,--put it in here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Miguel