scissors

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
4. 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.
5. A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
6. An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
7. A scissors hold.
8. 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.

Verb

Rare form of scissor (“To cut using, or as if using, scissors.”).

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor

Intj

Cry of anguish or frustration.

Concepts

ciseaux

ciseau

paire de ciseaux

saut en ciseaux

couper

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɪzəz/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); 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.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).