Meaning & use
scissors
A hand tool with two pivoted blades used for cutting thin material such as paper or fabric.
See it in a sentence
She used the scissors to trim the edges of the wrapping paper neatly.
The barber reached for a smaller pair of scissors to shape the client's eyebrows.
A note on using this word
Always treated as plural in English, like "pants" or "glasses"; say "a pair of scissors," not "a scissor."
Words with a similar meaning
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