scissor

大学 FREQ #26161

vt. 剪, 剪取, 删除, 削减 n. 剪刀

发音

UK /ˈsɪzə/
其它
US /ˈsɪzɚ/

词形变化

scissors 复数 scissors scissored scissoring scissors 三单 scissoring 现在分词 scissored 过去式 scissored 过去分词

别名

scissors

教材释义与例句

名词

剪刀

动词

用剪刀剪;删去

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Attributive form of scissors.

    定语
  2. 2.

    One blade on a pair of scissors.

    罕用
  3. 3.

    Scissors.

    印度
  4. 4.

    Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

v.
  1. 1.

    To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

    及物

    1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267, [The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]

  2. 2.

    To excise or expunge something from a text.

    及物

    The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.

  3. 3.

    To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.

    废旧 及物

    1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256, The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”

    1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing, This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.

  4. 4.

    To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

    不及物 及物

    The runner scissored over the hurdles.

    1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.

  5. 5.

    To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

    不及物
  6. 6.

    To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

    体育

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).

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