SCISSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scissor mean? 

• SCISSOR (verb)
  The verb SCISSOR has 1 sense:

1. cut with or as if with scissors

  Familiarity information: SCISSOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCISSOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scissor    ... he / she / it scissors   
Past simple: scissored   
Past participle: scissored   
-ing form: scissoring   

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

 Context examples 

Don’t be impatient, said Snow-white, I will help you, and she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the beard.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They may also have trouble with tasks such as writing or using scissors.

(Cerebral Palsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

The bundle was sewn together, and the doctor had to get out his instrument case and cut the stitches with his medical scissors.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The scissors were bent nail scissors.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have also, no doubt, remarked that Miss Cushing has cut the cord with a scissors, as can be seen by the double fray on each side.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lens discloses a large number of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Oh! And that's all about it, is it?” she exclaimed, trimming his whiskers with a little restless pair of scissors, that went glancing round his head in all directions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The —th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife-grinders and scissor merchants to shame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drops one's scissors, or anything that happens. Do you think Lady Russell would like that?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)