PAIR OF SCISSORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pair of scissors mean? 

• PAIR OF SCISSORS (noun)
  The noun PAIR OF SCISSORS has 1 sense:

1. an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades

  Familiarity information: PAIR OF SCISSORS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAIR OF SCISSORS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pair of scissors; scissors

Hypernyms ("pair of scissors" is a kind of...):

compound lever (a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum)

edge tool (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))

Meronyms (parts of "pair of scissors"):

blade (the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pair of scissors"):

clipper (scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural))

shears (large scissors with strong blades)

snuffers (scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick)

 Context examples 

“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)

Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He rose from his seat, and walked to the window, apparently from not knowing what to do; took up a pair of scissors that lay there, and while spoiling both them and their sheath by cutting the latter to pieces as he spoke, said, in a hurried voice, Perhaps you do not know—you may not have heard that my brother is lately married to—to the youngest—to Miss Lucy Steele.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The pleasantness of the morning had induced him to walk forward, and leave his horses to meet him by another road, a mile or two beyond Highbury—and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore them, he had been obliged to stop at her door, and go in for a few minutes: he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot, was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)