scissors

Etymology
From, (attested since 1350–1400), from , from , plural of  (compare ); from  word root  (compare ) or , past participle of. Partially displaced native, whence.
 * The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with, from carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
 * 3)  An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
 * 6)  An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
 * 7)  A scissors hold.
 * 8)  A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
 * 3)  An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
 * 4)  A scissors hold.
 * 5)  A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
 * 1)  A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Usage notes

 * "A pair of scissors" is preferred to "a scissors" by about a four-to-one margin in the US (COCA).
 * "The scissors" is preferred to "the scissor" by about a thirty-to-one margin in the US (COCA).

Translations

 * Abkhaz: амаркаты́л
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: nu-shu-shuk
 * Amharic: ሳረቶች
 * Arabic: مِقَصّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: مقص
 * Hijazi Arabic: مقص
 * Moroccan Arabic: مقص
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܵܪܘܿܛܵܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: foarficã, foarticã
 * Assamese: কেঁচি
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡайсы
 * Basque: guraize
 * Bats: მაკარტა
 * Belarusian: нажні́цы, нажні́чкі
 * Bemba: sisasi
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: gutin
 * Breton: ,
 * Brunei Malay: gunting
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: хайша
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: gunting
 * Central Dusun: gunting
 * Chechen: тукар
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎳᏍᏙᏯᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: җянзы
 * Eastern Min: 鉸刀
 * Hakka: 剪刀, 鉸刀
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 剪刀
 * Chuvash: хачӑ
 * Crimean Tatar: maqas
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan: кыптый
 * Drung: cvte
 * Dupaningan Agta: garasib
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: saks
 * Erzya: васоньпеельть
 * Esperanto: tondilo
 * Estonian:
 * Farefare: pasʋa
 * Faroese: saksur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: fuarpis, (un pâr de fuarfis)
 * Fula: mekesje
 * Galician: tesoiras,, tallantas
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ψαλίς
 * Greenlandic: qiuutit
 * Guaraní: jetapa
 * Gujarati:, કેંચી
 * Haitian Creole: sizo
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: ʻūpā
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: gunting
 * Hindi:, क़ैंची
 * Hinukh: мокӀортӀи
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: mma-mkpa
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: тукар
 * Irish: siosúr
 * Isan: กระไต, เซีย
 * Italian:
 * Iu Mien: njiuv
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk: хәәч
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: gunting
 * Karachay-Balkar: kıptı
 * Kazakh: қайшы
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Zyrian: шыран
 * Kongo: sizo, luziolo
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Laboya: gutti
 * Lao:, ມີດຕະໄກ
 * Latin: forfex, axicia
 * Latvian: šķēres, grieznes
 * Lezgi: мукӏратӏ
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala: makasi
 * Lithuanian: žirklės
 * Livonian: škērõd
 * Lombard:, fòrbes
 * Lü:
 * Luganda: makansi
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: ножици
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: mqass
 * Manchu: ᡥᠠᠰᠠᡥᠠ
 * Maori: kutikuti, katikati
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: вашкӱзӧ
 * Mbyá Guaraní: jetapa
 * Middle English: sisours
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mingrelian: მარგატელი
 * Moksha: васоньпеельхть
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠴᠢ
 * Neapolitan: fròbbece
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mkasi
 * Nogai: канышы
 * Northern Sami: skárrit, skierat
 * Northern Sotho: sekero
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: saks
 * Nuosu: ꑐꄉ
 * Occitan:
 * Okinawan: 鋏
 * Old English: sċēar, sċēara
 * Ossetian: хӕсгард
 * Ottoman Turkish: مقص
 * Pacoh: tarcâuq, tacâuq
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Piedmontese: tisòire
 * Plautdietsch: Schea
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Pukapukan: pākoti
 * Punjabi: ਕੈਂਚੀ
 * Quechua: qhachuti, k'utuna
 * Rohingya: kesi
 * Romani: kat
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: forsch, forbesch
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: fóltighe, fórfiga, fórfighe
 * Scottish Gaelic: siosar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̀казе, шка̏ре, но̏жице
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan:
 * Shona: chigero
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Skolt Sami: ska´rri
 * Slovak: nožnice
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: maqas
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nožyce
 * Upper Sorbian: nožicy
 * Southern Altai: кайчы
 * Southern Thai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: sesey, sisey
 * Sundanese: ᮌᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮤᮀ
 * Swahili: mkasi, mikasi
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠇꠦꠘ꠆ꠌꠤ
 * Tagalog: gunting
 * Tai Dam:
 * Tajik: қайчӣ, миқроз
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tarifit: timešraḍ
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: kateri
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: መቐዝ
 * Tlingit: khaashaxáshaa
 * Tofa: һэйчы
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: gaýçy
 * Tuvan: хачы
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: قَین٘چی, کَین٘چی, قَیچی
 * Uyghur: قايچا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: forfe
 * Veps: raudad
 * Vietnamese:
 * Voro: kääriq
 * Waray-Waray: gunting
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: skjirre
 * Wolof: siso
 * Yakut: кыптыый, тимир кыптыыйа
 * Yiddish: שער
 * Zhuang: geuz, gauqcienj


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 剪
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:

Interjection

 * 1)  Cry of anguish or frustration.