SCISSORS Synonyms

• (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal

• Anything that clips.

• (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.

• Something that moves swiftly; especially:

• The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.

• A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

• A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.

• Confidence trickster; conman.

• A tool for clipping something.

• a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs

• a machine that trims timber

• capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments

• joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades