Definition of SCISSORS

scissors

Meanings

Noun

  • an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
  • a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
  • a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
  • 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.
  • A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
  • An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
  • 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.
  • A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
  • An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
  • A scissors hold.
  • A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  • plural of scissor

Verb

  • cut with or as if with scissors
  • Rare form of scissor (“to cut using, or as if using, scissors”).
  • third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor

Intj

  • Cry of anguish or frustration.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sisours (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoirs, from Late Latin cīsōria, plural of cīsōrium (“cutting tool”); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears. Doublet of chisel.
The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindō (“to split”).

Synonyms

pair of scissors, scissor, scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold, shears, switch

Scrabble Score: 10

scissors is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
scissors is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scissors is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

scissors is a valid Words With Friends word