scissor

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (attributive, form-of) Attributive form of scissors.
2. (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
3. (India) Scissors.
4. Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
2. (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
5. (intransitive) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
6. To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Konzepte

Schere

schneiden

Synonyme

shear

clip

snip

cut away

cut back

cut out

edit

edit out

fix

jab

mow

nip off

pare

pierce

pinch

reduce

resect

retrench

sever

shears

slice

slit

spay

stab

tease

pare down

traverse

trim

cut to

operate on

slice up

snip off

cutting instrument

carve

pair of shears

cross

cut

Übersetzungen

ciseau

cortar

tijera

✂️

knippen

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈsɪzə/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: cysour

In summary

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”).