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Razor

//ˈɹeɪzə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
  2. 2
    edge tool used in shaving wordnet
  3. 3
    Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.

    "These are fellows who shun the three-, four- and five-blade contraptions and canned goops for an older mode of shaving that they insist remains the ideal: a straight razor or a safety razor with a double-edged blade, and a fine English cream lathered and applied with a badger-hair brush."

  4. 4
    The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
  5. 5
    A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.

    "Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor"

Verb
  1. 1
    To shave with a razor. transitive

    "He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised."

  2. 2
    shave with a razor wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).

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