I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.
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Scissor
//ˈsɪzə//
Synonyms for "scissor" (37 found)
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47 translations across 21 languages.
Biatah Bidayuh
1 entries- gutin verb (to cut using scissors)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ножица noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- изрязвам verb (to excise from text)
- режа с ножица verb (to cut using scissors)
Catalan
1 entries- tisora noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 剪 verb (to cut using scissors)
Dutch
1 entries- knippen verb (to cut using scissors)
Finnish
4 entries- saksenterä noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- saksi noun (noun adjunct)
- leikata verb (to excise from text)
- leikata saksilla verb (to cut using scissors)
French
2 entries- ciseau noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- couper aux ciseaux verb (to cut using scissors)
Galician
4 entries- arneta noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- tallanta noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- tesoira noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- texoira noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
German
1 entries- Schere noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
Greek
3 entries- ψαλίδι noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- περικόπτω verb (to excise from text)
- ψαλιδίζω verb (to cut using scissors)
Hungarian
2 entries- olló noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- ollózik verb (to move something like a pair of scissors)
Ido
1 entries- cizagar verb (to cut using scissors)
Italian
1 entries- forbici noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tìp verb (to cut using scissors)
Malay
1 entries- menggunting verb (to cut using scissors)
Māori
1 entries- kutikuti verb (to cut using scissors)
Norwegian
1 entries- klippe verb (to cut using scissors)
Spanish
3 entries- tijera noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- hacer la tijera verb (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act)
- hacer la tijereta verb (to engage in scissoring, a sexual act)
Swedish
4 entries- sax noun (noun adjunct)
- saxblad noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- skalm noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
- skänkel noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
Tagalog
1 entries- gunting noun (one blade on a pair of scissors)
Turkish
2 entries- kayırtmak verb (to cut using scissors)
- makasla kesmek verb (to cut using scissors)
Sample sentences
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The records of the Cutlers’ Company of London (1624) refer to scissor-making in the city, although the quality of English-made scissors did not match that of continental scissors for another 100 years. A few English firms of scissor-makers, notably those of Beach, Macklin and Neesham, established a small but notable industry at Salisbury, Wilts, from the mid-17th century until the early 20th.
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The doctor came over and peeled off the makeshift bandage, cleaned what he could and looked at it. / “Well, I know what I have to do.” He nodded at me and picked up a scissor-type tool. / “Oh, ho, ho! Don’t you do that; don’t do it; don’t you be cutting that thing off. You stitch it up. I need that finger to chord a guitar!”
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He put his two fingers in the scissor holes. He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist. The small scissors sheared right through it.
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