scissors

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Those scissors are sharp.”

2. isim 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. isim An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
4. isim 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.

   “They executed a perfect scissors.”

5. isim A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
6. isim An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
7. isim A scissors hold.
8. isim 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.
9. isim plural of scissor
10. fiil Rare form of scissor (“to cut using, or as if using, scissors”).

    “She found her in the dining-room with Ann Foster, the little dressmaker, who was endeavouring to scissors through the right side of her underlip with her teeth as proof that the compiling of a list of requisites was no tax to her.”

11. fiil third-person singular simple present indicative of scissor
12. ünlem Cry of anguish or frustration.

    “Say, wouldn’t it put your eye out to get a letter from one of the kiddies with the thumb‐prints of that crest not doing a thing but snuggling down in the wax on the envelope? Oh, scissors!”