noun Download 🔗Share One blade on a pair of scissors. Examples : "The broken scissors felt awkward to use because one blade was loose. " item utensil part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Scissors. Examples : "I need scissors to cut the paper for my project. " utensil item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. Examples : "The mechanic used a scissor jack to lift the car. " utensil item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cut using, or as if using, scissors. Examples : "The teacher asked the student to scissors the construction paper into small squares. " utensil action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To excise or expunge something from a text. Examples : "The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record." writing language communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy. Examples : "To prepare for the presentation, I scissorsed a few key paragraphs from the article. " writing word language communication media Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. Examples : "The runner scissored over the hurdles." action body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. Examples : "The two students were seen scissorsing in the back of the classroom. " sex action body human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. Examples : "As she gained speed on the ice, the young skater began to scissors, expertly gliding forward with long, overlapping strides. " sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (usually construed as plural) 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. Examples : "Scissors are used to cut the flowers." utility utensil stationery item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "They executed a perfect scissors." sport action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other. Examples : "The speed skater maintained her lead by using a powerful scissors across the final turn. " sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors. Examples : "During gym class, the students practiced the scissors exercise. " body action sport anatomy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A scissors hold. Examples : "The wrestler applied a painful scissors hold to his opponent's body, squeezing tightly with his legs. " sport action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. Examples : "My sister and I were playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who got to choose the movie. She used her scissors handshape and won. " game culture tradition entertainment communication action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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