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SCISSOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut with or as if with scissors

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "scissor" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the present instance there was no escape, and having clashed her scissors rebelliously, while protesting that she smelled thunder, she gave in, put away her work, and taking up her hat and gloves with an air of resignation, told Amy the victim was ready.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The pleasantness of the morning had induced him to walk forward, and leave his horses to meet him by another road, a mile or two beyond Highbury—and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore them, he had been obliged to stop at her door, and go in for a few minutes: he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot, was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it was lost.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The paper is cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then he went out again; and then she put her thimble and scissors in her pocket, and stuck a needle threaded with black thread neatly in the bosom of her gown, and put on her outer clothing smartly, at a little glass behind the door, in which I saw the reflection of her pleased face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Long did the hours seem while I waited the departure of the company, and listened for the sound of Bessie's step on the stairs: sometimes she would come up in the interval to seek her thimble or her scissors, or perhaps to bring me something by way of supper—a bun or a cheese-cake—then she would sit on the bed while I ate it, and when I had finished, she would tuck the clothes round me, and twice she kissed me, and said, Good night, Miss Jane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster’s stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He rose from his seat, and walked to the window, apparently from not knowing what to do; took up a pair of scissors that lay there, and while spoiling both them and their sheath by cutting the latter to pieces as he spoke, said, in a hurried voice, Perhaps you do not know—you may not have heard that my brother is lately married to—to the youngest—to Miss Lucy Steele.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)