an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
"The carpenter used his old pair of scissors to cut a clean line through the thick rope."
a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
"The wrestler executed a perfect scissors by wrapping his legs tightly around his opponent's torso and squeezing until he secured the pin."
a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
"During the routine, the gymnast executed perfect scissors by rhythmically scissoring his legs while balancing on the pommel horse."
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.
"She grabbed the scissors to cut the fabric into narrow strips for her sewing project."
In plain English: Scissors are two sharp blades connected at a pivot that you squeeze together to cut things.
"She used her scissors to cut out the picture from the magazine."
Usage: Use the plural form "scissors" even when referring to a single pair; avoid saying "a scissors." When specifying quantity or possession, treat it as a compound noun requiring words like "pair of," for example, "a pair of scissors" rather than "one scissors."
Rare form of scissor (“To cut using, or as if using, scissors.”).
"The tailor carefully scissors the fabric to create a perfect pattern."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor
In plain English: To scissors means to cut something with sharp blades that move back and forth against each other.
"The sharp wind began to scissors through the tall grass near the lake shore."
The word "scissors" comes from the Old French cisoirs, which originally meant a cutting tool. It is related to the Latin root meaning "to cut," while a native English word for the object, sċēara, survives today as "shears."