scissors

«scissors» in Mova's school dictionary: a tool for cutting, made of two blades joined in the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun, plural (scissors, a pair of scissors)

meaning for a pupil

1) Scissors are a tool for cutting, made of two blades joined in the middle that you open and close with your fingers. tree →

2) A scissor kick or scissor movement is when legs cross like scissor blades. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, children use scissors in art and crafts to cut paper, card and string. Safety rules: walk with scissors pointed down, pass them handle first, cut away from your body, and never run with them. Phrases: a pair of scissors, safety scissors, scissor kick, cut with scissors.

examples

• Pass me the scissors, please. tree →
• Hand scissors to someone handle first. tree →
• I need a pair of scissors to cut the ribbon. tree →
• Never run while holding scissors. tree →
• Cut along the dotted line with your scissors. tree →
• These scissors are too blunt to cut card. tree →
• ‘I know that!’ said the scissors. tree →

note

Scissors is always plural: "The scissors are on the table", not "is". To count them, say "a pair of scissors", "two pairs of scissors". Spelling has a silent c: sc-iss-ors.

In the corpora

• Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.
• The girl picks out the soft eyes of the twin nut «with her little golden scissors».
• The girl gives him her scissors.
• Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors.
• Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scissors» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.