scissor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”); ultimately from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]scissor (plural scissors)
- Attributive form of scissors.
- 2006, Gordon Campbell, editor, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298, column 1:
- 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.
- 2008, Clay Walker, Sir Long Chain Charles, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 43:
- 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!”
- 2010, Jennifer Maruno, Warbird, Napoleon Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:
- 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.
- (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
- (India) Scissors.
- (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one blade on a pair of scissors
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Verb
[edit]scissor (third-person singular simple present scissors, present participle scissoring, simple past and past participle scissored)
- (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
- 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:
- […] 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 […]
- 1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267,[1]
- [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 […]
- 1958, Truman Capote, chapter 4, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, New York: Vintage, published 1993, page 37:
- Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.
- 1993, Paul Theroux, chapter 4, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Ivy Books, published 1995, page 29:
- […] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.
- 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 48:
- They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair.
- 2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39:
- 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.
- (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- 1955, Lionel Shapiro, chapter 15, in The Sixth of June[2], Garden City, NY: Doubleday:
- The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor.
- 2003, William Gass, “The Shears of the Censor”, in Tests of Time, University of Chicago Press, page 190:
- At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]
- (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
- 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,[3]
- 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.”
- 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,[4]
- 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,[3]
- (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
- The runner scissored over the hurdles.
- 1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950,[5]
- She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[6], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:
- His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes.
- 1978, Edmund White, chapter 5, in Nocturnes for the King of Naples[7], Penguin, published 1980, page 67:
- […] I stand on tiptoe, lift a shade and see a pair of nyloned legs scissoring through a cold, wet, metropolitan afternoon.
- 1989, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 9, in Homesick[8], New York: Ticknor & Fields, published 1990, page 139:
- She’s got her arms locked around his belly and her legs scissored around his shins […]
- (intransitive, sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
- (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cut using scissors
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to excise from text
to engage in scissoring, a sexual act
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scindō (“I cut, tear”) (supine scissum) + -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskis.sor/, [ˈs̠kɪs̠ːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈʃis.sor/, [ˈʃisːor]
Noun
[edit]scissor m (genitive scissōris); third declension
- trancheur, somebody who in a banquet cuts the foodstuffs
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 36:
- Processit statim scissor et ad symphoniam gesticulatus ita laceravit obsonium, ut putares essedarium hydraule cantante pugnare.
- The trancheur walked forward and signed in so concerted a manner while cutting the food that one believed that a chariot fought with a water-flute player.
- Processit statim scissor et ad symphoniam gesticulatus ita laceravit obsonium, ut putares essedarium hydraule cantante pugnare.
- a kind of gladiator
- 1st century BCE, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IX 466, which is a list of gladiators of the lanista Gaius Salvius Capito in Venusia
- Ret[iarius] C[aius] Clodius
Scisso[r] M[arcus] Caecilius- the net fighter Gaius Clodius
The trancheur Marcus Caecilius
- the net fighter Gaius Clodius
- 1st century BCE, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IX 466, which is a list of gladiators of the lanista Gaius Salvius Capito in Venusia
- (Medieval Latin) tailor
- (Medieval Latin) carver
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | scissor | scissōrēs |
genitive | scissōris | scissōrum |
dative | scissōrī | scissōribus |
accusative | scissōrem | scissōrēs |
ablative | scissōre | scissōribus |
vocative | scissor | scissōrēs |
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