scissors
剪刀,剪子,剪断,剪切
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Definitions
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- : a cutting instrument for paper, cloth, etc., consisting of two blades, each having a ring-shaped handle, that are so pivoted together that their sharp edges work one against the other.
- : Gymnastics. any of several feats in which the legs execute a scissorlike motion.
- : Wrestling. a hold secured by clasping the legs around the body or head of the opponent.
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Examples
Do you think Beth knew what would happen if she stabbed Dawn with those scissors?
The wounds Kralik suffered were consistent with what the scissors would have caused.
He still cuts and pastes—literally, with scissors and tape—as he edits each chapter of each book.
Cas9 are the molecular scissors that cut out what he does not like: the normal CCR5 that welcomes in HIV.
A collection of rock-like papier-mâché sculptures stands across from “Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors.”
Taking the scissors from Violet's workbag, she cut the laundry bag carefully into two pieces, saving the cord for a clothesline.
They were tangled, too, and Jess cut them off evenly by a string, with Violet's little scissors.
Miss Rivers took up some brown leaves which she was cutting out with scissors, and shaping.
“It comes from the dead,” said she, but she opened it at last, cutting round the large seal with a pair of scissors.
At his belt he carries a pair of scissors to cut the long leaves of the green tobacco he smokes into the hollow of his hand.